El Salvador Kaleidoscope
With 8,123 square miles, El Salvador is the smallest nation in Central America and is mostly mountainous country bordered by the Pacific Ocean. It is a land of volcanos with frequent earthquakes, with a 2024 population of 6,346,000 with 1,123,000 living in San Salvador, the nation’s capital. Led by the popular reform President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador, once the most corrupt and violent nation in the Western Hemisphere, is now considered the second safest nation in the Americas, second only to Canada.