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Santa Ana

El Salvador · Santa Ana Department

Santa Ana is the second largest city in El Salvador, after the capital of San Salvador. It is located 64 kilometers northwest of San Salvador, the capital city. Santa Ana has approximately 250,760 (2024) inhabitants and serves both as the capital of the department of Santa Ana and as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. For its administration the municipality is divided into 35 colonias (neighborhoods) and 318 small villages.

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Practical facts

Local time: UTC-6 · Same time as Costa Rica
Region: Santa Ana Department
Main language: Spanish
On the map: 13.98° N, 89.56° W

Near Santa Ana

Ruta de las Flores · 28 km away
La Libertad · 40 km away
San Salvador · 51 km away
Acajutla · 52 km away
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Suchitoto · 58 km away

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Central America's smallest country has reinvented itself around its world-class Pacific surf breaks, colonial towns along the Ruta de las Flores, and Mayan ruins at Joya de Cerén.

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