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SONSONATE

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 417 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SONSONATE  , the

capital of the department of Sonsonate, Salvador; on the
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river Sensunapan and the railway from
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San Salvador to the Pacific
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port of Acajutla, 13 M. south . Pop . (1905), about 17,000 . Sonsonate is the centre of a rich agricultural
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district, and one of the busiest manufacturing towns in the republic . It produces cotton
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cloth, pottery, mats and baskets, boots and shoes,
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sugar,
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starch, cigars and
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spirits . Through Acajutla it exports coffee and sugar, and imports grain for distribution to all parts of the interior .

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