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Ayutuxtepeque

Ayutuxtepeque is a district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador.

The place

Ayutuxtepeque is a district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It is one of the nine municipalities that make up the San Salvador Metropolitan Area (AMSS). The name of the municipality means "Armadillos Hill "

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ayutuxtepeque

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of El Salvador

    The University of El Salvador is the oldest and the most prominent university institution in El Salvador. It serves as the national university of the country.

    1.9 km · public university of El Salvador · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen

    The Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen is a museum located in San Salvador, El Salvador. It was founded in the late 1990s by the Venezuelan journalist Carlos Henríquez Consalvi as a museum dedicated to collecting and preserving memories of the Salvadoran civil war, incorporating memories across the political spectrum.

    2.9 km · War museum in San Salvador, El Salvador · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Estadio Universitario (UES)

    Estadio Universitario is a multi-use stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of C.D. UES. The stadium holds 10,000 people.

    1.5 km · multi-use stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Government Center Tower (San Salvador)

    Government Center Tower is a building located in the city of San Salvador, El Salvador. It houses the offices of the Ministry of the Interior.

    3.4 km · building in El Salvador · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Technological University of El Salvador

    The Technological University of El Salvador or Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador, is a higher education center in El Salvador, known as UTEC or "la Tecno", owned by a private capital company. The university campus is located in San Salvador and has ten classroom buildings, an auditorium, a library, specialized laboratories, a cultural center, and computer centers, in addition to Radio UTEC and Tecnovisión.

    4 km · private university in San Salvador, El Salvador · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Ayutuxtepeque

Airports
El Salvador Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (SAL), 36 km · La Aurora (GUA), 171 km · Palmerola (XPL), 185 km
  • Guatemala City → Ayutuxtepeque
    174 km · quickest by road, 4h 51m · $19–26
  • Palmerola → Ayutuxtepeque
    187 km · quickest by road, 5h 26m · $24–33
  • San Pedro Sula → Ayutuxtepeque
    234 km · quickest by road, 6h 53m · $28–38
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ayutuxtepeque

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ayutuxtepeque. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom the airport offers limited colectivo services up into several major hotels in San Salvador.
  • Go nextThe rent a plane service is available to go to Santa Ana, San Miguel and La Union (on Tamarindo, near the Gulf of Fonseca where you can board a ferry to take you to the other Islands).

From Wikivoyage: San Salvador, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    363 km
  2. 02
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    461 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    463 km
  4. 04
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    556 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,411 km

If you know how people move in Ayutuxtepeque – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ayutuxtepeque

Ayutuxtepeque is 5 km from San Salvador, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Mejicanosdistrict in Central San Salvador, El Salvador2.2 km
  • Ciudad Delgadodistrict in Central San Salvador, El Salvador3.7 km
  • Cuscatancingodistrict in Central San Salvador, El Salvador2.5 km