Puerto de la Libertad, El Salvador

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El Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador.

“Puerto de la Libertad, the dynamic port town of La Libertad, located in the coastal crease of La Libertad state in El Salvador, is emerging as one of Central America’s best surfing destinations for international travelers.”

Stamps

(left) “Villa Palestina”, issued 2008.

There is a sizable population of persons of Palestinian heritage who live in El Salvador. During the Ottoman Empire, the Christians of Bethlehem sent the young people of the community to other countries, in order to prevent them from being drafted into the army. Some of them reached El Salvador, and today there is a community there of 70,000 Palestinian Christians.