Ilopango
Ilopango is a town and district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador.
Ilopango is a town and district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. It is a few miles east of the nation's capital, San Salvador and part of the San Salvador metropolitan area. It is located near Lake Ilopango, the country's largest lake at 72 square kilometers.
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Worth seeing in and around Ilopango
One place 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.
- 01Plaza Mundo
Plaza Mundo is a chain of shopping malls owned by real estate group Grupo Agrisal, which is headquartered in El Salvador. As of 2023, Plaza Mundo has two shopping malls located in Soyapango, Apopa and Usulután.
3.7 km · shopping mall chain · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ilopango
- Airports
- El Salvador Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (SAL), 29 km · Palmerola (XPL), 178 km · La Aurora (GUA), 181 km
- Stations
- Ilopango International Airport, 600 m
- Palmerola → Ilopango179 km · quickest by road, 5h 7m · $23–31
- Guatemala City → Ilopango184 km · quickest by road, 5h 8m · $20–28
- San Pedro Sula → Ilopango232 km · quickest by road, 7h 2m · $28–39
- 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 Ilopango
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 Ilopango. 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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Next door to Ilopango
Ilopango is 3 km from Soyapango, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Soyapangodistrict in Eastern San Salvador, El Salvador3.6 km