On May 31, 1522, the first of the Spanish, under the leadership of Captain Pedro de Alvarado, disembarked on the Isla Meanguera, located in the Gulf of Fonseca.

In June 1524 Captain Alvarado began a war of conquest against the indigenous people of Cuzcatlán (land of precious things).

After years of struggle, the Central American Independence Act was signed in Guatemala, on September 15, 1821 (Embajada).

[1] 1835 Marshall Bennett, main representative of Belize merchants and former slave holders, exploited the Tabanco mine.

By law on March 12, 1947, this municipality lost the canton El Morro to Dulce Nombre de Maria.

Due to the repression of the landowners, in 1931 farmers and indigenous citizens began a rebellion (Lonely Planet).

The army responded by killing 30,000 people, including the leader of the rebellion, Farabundo Martí, in a bloody act that was later referred to as La Matanza (The Massacre) (Lonely Planet).

The government responded with violence, and the Death Squads were formed, which eventually tortured and killed thousands of people (Foley 2006).

More political instability and the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero in 1980 sparked the beginning of the Civil War.

[3] This war, which lasted 12 years, resulted in the death of an estimated 75,000 people and the displacement of thousands more (Stahler-Sholk, 1994:3).

Candelaria: El Morro: Guachipilin: La Junta: Source: Chalatenango Monografía del departamento y sus municipios.

[5] There is a lot of Protestant activity in the country, and El Salvador has one of the highest rates of Protestantism in Latin America (Soltero y Saravia 2003:1).

It should be mentioned that now, in front of the crisis of agricultural production, the population has diminished their work and emigrated to the United States or tried to find other ways to survive.