San Vicente - City of El Salvador

San Vicente is a municipality in the San Vicente department of El Salvador. San Vicente is one of the smallest departments in El Salvador. Among places to highlight is the Tower of San Vicente, located in park Cañas. It was damaged by the earthquake of 2001 that was in the country and is planned to be fixed, but nothing seems to be coming out well. So far there isn’t any total repair.

The place has its local festivals, taking place at the center of the city, park Cañas. Among those is the gastronomic festivals that are usually every month. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Vicente.

One of the most beautiful and imposing volcanoes of the coastal chain is the Chinchontepec or volcano of San Vicente, located in the confines of the department of the same name. Its almost perfect cone, as sugar pile, finishes off in two hill tops and this peculiarity gives origin to its nahuat name Hill of two tits.

The beautiful Valley of Jiboa expands to the northeast and north of the western summit. It is also called Valley of Millers.

Chichontepec Volcano has also in the midst of the valley, an important archeological site called "Tehuacan." This was a place of adoration to the aztec gods, and the found structures demonstrates the type of hierarchical organization their tribes had.

San Vicente is famous for the variety of typical sweets elaborated with coconut preserves, nance, and tamarindo. In San Esteban Catarina, sweets of panela and pilon sugar are manufactured. San Sebastian is very famous for its textile production.