El Mozote is situated in the north east of the country of El Salvador near to the Honduran border. It is a small village community of approximately 600 habitants whose main income is subsistence farming. The village has a school which teaches the children up to ninth grade and after, if the families can afford to, the children have to travel by bus to complete their last three years of basic education.

Geographic Situation and Historic background:

El Salvador in Central America is the smallest country in the American continent; but has a population of 5.8 million according to the latest census. El Salvador has a history of natural disasters. It is a tropical country in an earthquake area. The last major earthquake was in 2002 which caused much death and destruction mostly in the central and western part of the country.

The El Mozote Massacre took place in the village of El Mozote, in Morazán department, El Salvador, on December 11, 1981, when Salvadoran armed forces trained by the United States military killed at least 1000 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign.

It is reputed to be the worst such atrocity in modern Latin America history.

The massacre was a low point in the Salvadoran Civil War that ravaged this Central American country between the late 1970s and 1990.

El Salvador is a land of amazing contrasts, accented by a long string of cone-shaped volcanoes and tranquil mountain lakes.
In addition, the country's Maya ruins are considered some of the most interesting in all of Central America.

El Salvador is a beautiful country nestled in between Guatemala, Honduras and the Pacific Ocean.
It is the smallest country in Central America and is truly its best kept secret - there are no crowds!
There are over 6.5 million people living in an area about the size of Ulster.

El Salvador is the smallest Spanish-speaking nation in the Western Hemisphere. El Salvador is about the size of the Ulster, with about 5.8 million inhabitants. It has an area of 8,123 square miles (21,041 square kilometers). With 644 people per square mile, El Salvador’s population is three and a half times denser than Guatemala’s and up to ten times denser than that of other Central American nations.