Agua Caliente, El Salvador
| Agua Caliente | |
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| Municipality | |
 Agua Caliente
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| Coordinates: 14°10′N 89°13′W / 14.167°N 89.217°WCoordinates: 14°10′N 89°13′W / 14.167°N 89.217°W | |
| Country |
 El Salvador
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| Department | Chalatenango Department |
| Elevation | 381 m (1,250 ft) |
Agua Caliente is a municipality in the Chalatenango department of El Salvador.
Agua Caliente, El Salvador is a town north of Chalatenango, the capital city of the department of Chalatenango, North East of Nueva Concepcion. It occupies an area of 195 square kilometers, and has a population (2006) of 8,992. Location of the city center is 14º11’12.91”N, 89º13’19.82”W. As per the Technical Secretary of the Presidency of El Salvador, it has ranking 27 of extreme poverty of the 267 municipalities of El Salvador.
History
People are friendly and courteous to visitors. Most people from the neighboring “cantones” or hamlets display Caucasian features; they may be blond, with fair skin and blue eyes. This may be because the entire department of Chalatenango was populated by early Spanish settlers attracted by the boom of indigo cultivation in colonial times and sent there by Baron of Carardalet, governor of Guatemala in the late 18th century. A pdf document published by FISDL, (http://www.fisdl.gob.sv/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=902) indicates that “As per Antonio Gutierrez y Ulloa in 1807 Agua Caliente was simply a hacienda of cattle and indigo belonging to Bernardino Aguilar, five leagues N. E. of Tejutla, away from the Royal Road. As per other traditions, that hacienda became a hamlet in 1819 and then, fulfilling the Laws and Orders of Indias it became a village with the long name of San Jose Agua Caliente de las Flores. The new municipality was incorporated to the Region of Tejutla. From 1824 to 1833 it belonged to the department of San Salvador; to the department of Tejutla in 1833; to the department of San Salvador from 1833 to 1835; to the department of Cuzcatlan from 1835 to 1855. From then on it has been a municipality of Chalatenango. In 1890 it had 2,340 souls. Its name comes from two hot springs in the area and another one in the canton of Obrajuelo.”
The Cabrera, Guevara, Menjivar and Aguilar families were prominent in the history of the town. Abraham Cabrera donated the land occupied by the high school of the town. He was mayor of the town sometime in the early 1900s. His two sons, Jose Angel Cabrera and Miguel Cabrera also served as mayors between 1960 and 1975. In late July 2007, Agua Caliente began receiving running water again. Electricity and running water were first installed in the earkly 60's as part of the initiatives of the Alliance for Progress of President John F. Kennedy. As most towns in El Salvador, there is no water treatment for raw sewage and this is typically discharged in a nearby creek or in the Metayate River which runs in the middle of the town.
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