Cojutepeque Zip code

In El Salvador, the department of Cuscatlan is named after the city of Cojutepeque, which is the capital. It also served as the capital of San Salvador for a long time, but not for very long. It is also the administrative centre for the nearby town of Cojutepeque. It is thought to have a population of about 70,000 people, with about 85 percent living in the city areas of the municipality. There is a road that goes from Cojutepeque to San Salvador, which is 33 km away. It is 850 metres above sea level, and it has a good weather. It is called "City of the Mists." Its name comes from the Nahuatl words for "at the top of the hill where coyotes live." It was made a city in 1846. The old churches of San Juan Degollado, San Jose, and San Sebastian can be found in the city, and they are very old. There is a fair in honour of St. Sebastian in Cojutepeque (San Juan Degollado). A lot of cereals, sugarcane, loaf-sugar, panela, and fruit are grown and harvested in this area. Local businesses make hats out of palm fronds. There are sausages from Cojutepeque that are well-known all over El Salvador. They play football for Cojutepeque FC in this town, and it is where they live. Ilopango Lake, volcano San Vicente, and Valley of Jiboa can be seen from Cerro de las Pavas, which is the main thing that draws people there.