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Cuscatancingo

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

Cuscatancingo
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  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.

    2.7 km · public university of El Salvador · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Metropolitan 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
  3. 03
    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.

    3.6 km · War museum in San Salvador, El Salvador · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Teatro 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
  5. 05
    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.

    2.4 km · multi-use stadium in San Salvador, El Salvador · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Student 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
  7. 07
    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.

    3.6 km · building in 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.

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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 → Cuscatancingo
    176 km · quickest by road, 4h 56m · $19–27
  • Palmerola → Cuscatancingo
    185 km · quickest by road, 5h 23m · $24–33
  • San Pedro Sula → Cuscatancingo
    234 km · quickest by road, 6h 52m · $28–38
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    459 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

    1,409 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cuscatancingo

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

  • Mejicanosdistrict in Central San Salvador, El Salvador1.3 km
  • Ciudad Delgadodistrict in Central San Salvador, El Salvador1.8 km
  • Ayutuxtepequedistrict in Central San Salvador, El Salvador1.8 km