NOUN
- the capital and largest city of El Salvador; has suffered from recurrent earthquakes
How To Use San Salvador In A Sentence
- I drank away the fear and excitement in a seedy bar in downtown San Salvador.
- It sat at the southern edge of San Salvador on land that had once held a garbage dump.
- Watling, for this and other reasons dwelt on by English surveyors, is on the new maps rebaptized San Salvador, in rectification of euphony not less than of historic truth. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
- The sixth, by name San Salvador, had likewise no more than two guns. The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main
- He went to the province of Cuzcatan, in which, or not far distant, there is the town of San Salvador, which is a most delightful place extending all along the coast of the South Sea from forty to fifty leagues: and the town of Cuzcatan, which was the capital of the province, gave him the kindest of welcomes, sending him more than twenty or thirty Indians loaded with fowls and other provisions. Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings
- It sat at the southern edge of San Salvador on land that had once held a garbage dump.
- This island he called San Salvador, because he and his crew had been saved from a watery grave, and also because October 12 was so named in the Spanish calendar. Discoverers and Explorers
- In fact, in some cases when the power goes out in San Salvador, which is quite frequently, they can't leave their house because their doors are opened and shut through electric eyes, so literally they're prisoners in their own houses. Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America
- It seemed that the Indians from San Salvador who were on board the Pinta had told him that beyond the promontory, named by Columbus the Cape of Palms, there was a river, four days 'journey upon which would bring one to the city of Cuba, which was very rich and large and abounded with gold; and that the king of that country was at war with a monarch whom they called Cami, and whom Pinzon identified with the Great Khan. Christopher Columbus
- The vast majority of the affected in San Salvador are poor inhabitants of apartment buildings and substandard housing.