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Sonsonate

Sonsonate is a city of 73,000 people (2013) in southwestern El Salvador, near Acajutla. Holy week is celebrated throughout Latin America, but the celebrations are particularly fervent in Sonsonate. Wikivoyage

Population 72,233 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in El Salvador

Visas and entry What your passport needs for El Salvador

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. The Patron Saint Festivities of Sonsonate

    January – February

    The festivities are celebrated from January 25 to February 2 of each year, in honor of the Virgen de la Candelaria.

  2. Lent and Easter

    March – April

    In El Salvador, the towns in which Holy Week is most solemnly celebrated are Sonsonate and Izalco. Lent opens with its traditional processions on Fridays of Lent.

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Sonsonate); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Getting around

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.