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The municipality (municipio) is the second tier of El Salvador, below the 14 departments. Since the reform of 2024 there are 44 of them, where there used to be 262, and each is named for its department and a compass point, as in Ahuachapán Norte or San Miguel Oeste.
The 44 municipalities of El Salvador as they have been since 2024. The reform merged the old municipalities into larger ones, and the old ones live on as the districts (distritos) inside them, which this map does not draw. Almost every name is the department plus a direction, so the names tell you where in the department the municipality is: Norte and Sur, Este and Oeste, Centro for the middle, and Costa for the one on the coast in La Libertad.
That makes the names easy to learn once the departments are known, and easy to mix up before: the compass point is the second thing to learn, after the department.
The municipalities are uneven. San Salvador Centro and Ahuachapán Norte are tight clusters near the capital and the western border, while La Unión Norte and San Miguel Centro each cover a thousand square kilometres. The reservoir of Cerrón Grande and the lakes Ilopango, Guija and Coatepeque are water, and are not on the map as municipalities. The groups are the departments, so the game lets you drill them one at a time. Each department answers under the same name in El Salvador Departments.
Ahuachapán Norte is a municipality of Ahuachapán in the north of the department, on the Guatemalan border, and the smallest of the 44 by area.
La Unión Norte is the largest municipality in El Salvador, the whole northern half of the eastern department on the Honduran border.
44, spread over the 14 departments.
A reform in 2024 merged the 262 old municipalities into 44. The old ones are now districts inside them.
Each is named for its department and where it lies in it, which is also the quickest way to place one.
The tier above this one is El Salvador Departments. For another country at this level, see Guatemala Municipalities.
