San Salvador in five emoji

What each emoji refers to

🫓

Pupusas are thick masa cakes stuffed before cooking, and there is a national day for them in November.

🏄

The surf breaks half an hour down the coast are consistent enough to hold international competitions.

🌋

The San Salvador volcano is directly above the city and last erupted in 1917.

🪙

El Salvador made bitcoin legal tender in 2021, the first country anywhere to do it.

⛪

Archbishop Romero was shot while saying mass in 1980, and his tomb in the cathedral crypt is still visited daily.

San Salvador at a glance

Country

El Salvador

Coordinates

13.69° N, 89.22° W

First played

22 May 2026

Nearest cities in the game

Distances are great-circle, the same measure the game reports after a wrong guess. The arrow is the direction you would need to travel from San Salvador.