NATIONAL LEADER Rev. Bartolome Espana CHURCH STATISTICS 1 church

Current work was organized in 1991. There were several Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Churches here but during a Civil War in El Salvador, we lost these churches. There are hopes of new churches being born here.

PEOPLES
89 percent of the Salvadoran population are mixed descendants of American natives and Spanish colonizers; 10 percent are indigenous peoples; 1 percent are European.

RELIGIONS
Mainly Catholic- 75 percent; Protestant; Mormon; Jehovah's Witness.

LANGUAGES
Spanish is the official and predominant language. Indigenous minority groups speak Nahuatl.

POLITICAL PARTIES
The Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA); the Christian Democratic Party; the left-wing Democratic Convergence, the Party of National Reconciliation (PCN); Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), founded in October 1980, is made up of five political-military organizations; People's Liberation Forces (FPL), the El Salvador Communist Party (PCS), the National Resistance Armed Forces (FARN), the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) and the Central American Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRTC).

THE STATE

OFFICIAL NAME
República de El Salvador.

ADMINISTRATION
14 Departments.

CAPITAL
San Salvador

OTHER CITIES
Soyapango 251,800 people; Santa Ana 202,300; San Miguel 182,800; Mejicanos 145,000 (1992).

GOVERNMENT
Fernando Flores Pérez, President since June 1999.

NATIONAL HOLIDAY
September 15, Independence Day (1821).

ENVIRONMENT
El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America. A chain of volcanoes runs across the country from east to west and the altitude makes the climate mild. Coffee is the main cash crop in the highlands. Subsistence crops such as corn, beans and rice are also grown. Along the Pacific Coast, where the weather is warmer, there are sugar cane plantations. It is the country with the greatest problems of deforestation in Latin America.