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CENTRAL AMERICA
El Salvador
Triplandio El Salvador guide covers 2 travel guides with 2 cities across 8 areas, complete with hotel picks. Explore 8 self-guided walking tours in El Salvador with 33 POI, spanning 24.8 km in total. Get inspired by 4 local dishes, complete with recipes and our unique Food Flavour DNA graph.
City & Country Data El Salvador
Key travel data — cost of living, safety, healthcare, local currency and essentials, curated by Triplandio.
🌍 El Salvador
Tourists
707K/y
GDP/cap
$5.8k
Life Exp
72.3 yrs
Population
6.4M
Currency
USD $
Language
Spanish
Payments
Mixed
Emergency
112
Traditional Local Food El Salvador
Street food
Meat
Pastelitos de Maíz
Pahs-teh-lee-tohs deh Mah-ees
· Corn pancakes with meat
Fried corn pancakes filled with seasoned meat.
Open Pastelitos de Maíz recipe🐟
Soup
Fish & Seafood
Mariscada
Mah-ree-skah-dah
· Seafood soup
A creamy soup filled with a variety of seafood.
Open Mariscada recipe🌿
Street food
Vegetarian
Elote Loco
Eh-loh-teh Loh-koh
· Crazy corn
Grilled corn on the cob coated with condiments like mayo and cheese.
Open Elote Loco recipe🥩
Soup
Meat
Sopa de Gallina India
So-pah deh Gah-yee-nah Een-dee-ah
· Free-range hen soup
Traditional soup made with free-range hen, corn, and vegetables.
Open Sopa de Gallina India recipe