District in San Salvador Department, El Salvador
Soyapango
Soyapango is a district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador.
Soyapango is the country's largest municipality with 284,700 residents. Soyapango is a satellite city of San Salvador and it is the main thoroughfare between San Salvador and the eastern part of the country, and nearly 70,000 vehicles travel through it every day. The nickname for this satellite city is Soya.
How locals move
Getting around Soyapango the local way
- 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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