Colón, La Libertad


Colón is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador.
Colón is surrounded by the municipalities of Santa Tecla, Quezaltepeque, San Juan Opico, Ciudad Arce, and Sacacoyo y Talnique. The municipality was previously known as El Guarumal, and was made a town on 20 August 1886, and a village on 24 July 1986.

Cantons

The municipality is bordered by various cantons:
Colón has Los Chorros which was destroyed in the 2001 earthquake, but reopened in March 2008.

Security

The city was considered to be one of the most dangerous in the country, reporting various homicides and notorious activity of gangs, locally called maras, however; due to recent reinforcement of security measurement applied by Nayib Bukele's administration, activity of gangs and homicides index have dropped dramatically since June 2019

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