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

Cuscatancingo is a district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It is located about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from the city of San Salvador and has a population of about 50,000. It is part of the San Salvador metropolitan area.
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Worth seeing in and around Cuscatancingo
7 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.
- 01University 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.
2.7 km · public university of El Salvador · Wikipedia - 02Metropolitan Cathedral of San Salvador
The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Savior is the cathedral church of the Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador in San Salvador, El Salvador.
4 km · catholic cathedral in El Salvador · Wikipedia - 03Museo 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.
3.6 km · War museum in San Salvador, El Salvador · Wikipedia - 04Teatro Nacional de San Salvador
Teatro Nacional de El Salvador, or National Theatre of El Salvador began construction on November 3, 1911, by the French architect Daniel Beylard; and inaugurated March 1, 1917. It is of French Renaissance style with modern touches.
3.9 km · theatre located in the Historic Downtown San Salvador, El Salvador · Wikipedia - 05Estadio 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.
2.4 km · multi-use stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador · Wikipedia - 06Student massacre of July 30, 1975
The 1975 Salvadoran student massacre occurred during the waning years of El Salvador's military dictatorships and was an important event in the buildup to the country's civil war. This massacre of an unknown number of student demonstrators was led by then-President Colonel Arturo Armando Molina and General Carlos Humberto Romero and took place in San Salvador, the country's capital, during the events of the Miss Universe beauty pageant.
3.7 km · March of students of the University of El Salvador against the military government in 1975 · Wikipedia - 07Government 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.
3.6 km · building in El Salvador · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cuscatancingo
- Airports
- El Salvador Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (SAL), 35 km · La Aurora (GUA), 173 km · Palmerola (XPL), 183 km
- Guatemala City → Cuscatancingo176 km · quickest by road, 4h 56m · $19–27
- Palmerola → Cuscatancingo185 km · quickest by road, 5h 23m · $24–33
- San Pedro Sula → Cuscatancingo234 km · quickest by road, 6h 52m · $28–38
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Cuscatancingo
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 Cuscatancingo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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).
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Cuscatancingo is 5 km from San Salvador, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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