San Bartolomé Perulapía | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | El Salvador |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in El Salvador |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | El Salvador |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Cuscatlán Department |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2001 |
Population Total: | 9,909 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Coordinates: | 13.7658°N -89.0508°W |
Elevation M: | 652 |
San Bartolomé Perulapía is a municipality in the Cuscatlán department of El Salvador. It is located on the highway between San Martín and Suchitoto.
The following statistics are for a city of the same name within the municipality:
When the Spanish conquistadors came, the location was part of three native towns called pupulapan. The towns were then called, by the Europeans, San Martín, San Pedro, y San Bartolomé Perulapán, also called pupulapía, y transformed into perulapía. In 1770 Pedro Cortés y Larraz estimated that the population was 421 natives and 6 Latinos in population.
It was part of the department of San Salvador from 1824 until 1835, at which time it was turned over to Cuscatlán. Because of an earthquake in 1872, the town was moved a kilometer from its original location. Its population was 960 inhabitants in 1890.