Regional Information-
Capital CitySan Salvador
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Regional RelationshipsInternational Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras boundary, in 1992, with final agreement by the parties in 2006 after an Organization of American States (OAS) survey and a further ICJ ruling in 2003; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca advocating Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not identified in the ICJ decision, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca
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Environmental: Goals/Challenges/Agreements
Challenges
Deforestation; soil erosion; water pollution; contamination of soils from disposal of toxic wastes
International Agreements
Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea
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Humanitarian Projects -
Native Languages Spanish, Nahua (among some Amerindians)
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Climate Tropical; rainy season (May to October); dry season (November to April); tropical on coast; temperate in uplands
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