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Edition No. 1
June 2013
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Visit the most beautiful
places in the eastern zone
from El Salvador:
Alegria, Olomega, Playitas
And much more…
Learn about American
Football in our city and
our Country

Tourism Magazine is a tourist guide exclusively
on San Miguel, El Salvador. Here you can find
information of a number of cities and other
tourist sites. You can also enjoy the pictures of a
multitude of aspects of what is El Salvador.
If you need a hotel accommodations you can
contact us; every article has the name of the
Guide and his/her e-mail adress… You can
consult for the directory of hotels and find
information on how to contact and make your
reservation.
We hope you enjoy the potential of the Magazine
and learn more about the possibilities of travel
and entertainment that can be enjoyed in El
Salvador.
Best regards,
Maximo A. Blanco
Main Editor

Editor In Chief:
Maximo A. Blanco
Design:
Maximo A. Blanco
Writers:
Maximo A. Blanco
Edilma Arias
Leyda Zelaya
Aida Rivera
Raquel Marquez
UNIVERSIDAD
DE ORIENTE
Technical English III
Teacher:
Francisco Andrade
Page Article
4 Alegria
6 El Espino - Beach
8 Aqua Park
10 Lake Olomega
12 Playitas
14
San Miguel Fire – American Football Club
16 SAAIF, Building tomorrows leaders
17 Salvadorian group fights gangs with
Football

Located in northern
Usulután, Alegría is
visited by local and
foreign tourists looking
for a quiet mountain
town, with cool climate
and friendly people.
Alegría is a haven of
tranquility ideal for
escaping the routine
and the hectic pace of
the cities. It is situated
142 km from San
Salvador.
It should be noted that
this town has won
twice the tourist award
named “Pueblos Vivos”
thanks, among other
things, to its classic
representative houses
made of adobe and red
tile roofs, some of them
decorated with colorful
flowers.
Maximo A. Blanco
mblanco1986@hotmail.com
“Alegria is a
magical
experience for
everyone.”
In the park of the city
of Alegria, the bust in
memory of educator
Presbytery José Miguel
Alegria is erected. He
was a remarkable
professor of Latin who
founded in the town of
Tecapa around 1838, a
philosophy school.
Because of the Law of
February 17 of 1891,
the city of Tecapa was
denominated city of
Alegria. This famous
professor's body
remains in the crypt of
this population's
parochial church.
The current temple of
Alegria began being
built on August 26,
1870. Alegria is the
cradle of the illustrious
Salvadoran teacher
and thinker don
Alberto Masferrer.
Alfredo Menendez
Says: “I fall in love
every time I get to
Alegria, I love this
beautiful place,
breathes peace and
tranquility, see its
beautiful historic
homes leave you
speechless, Alegria is a
magical experience for
everyone.”

El Espino Beach is one
of the favorite
attractions in eastern
El Salvador. At El
Espino you will find
more than 10
kilometers of unbroken
beaches with gray
sand, mangrove forests
and rustic palm roof
rooms for your stay.
At 156 km from San
Salvador and 38 km
from San Miguel, this
site is ideal for sports
such as beach soccer,
volleyball, jogging,
fishing and swimming.
As part of its appeal,
the local fishermen
offer seafood, fresh
from the sea, at
affordable prices. You
may take a boat trip to
Edilma Arias
raquelarias@hotmail.com
the nearby islands, or
to Jiquilisco Bay.
This corner of
Usulután displays
incredible sunsets,
delicate waves and the
warmth of the locals
who will gladly assist
you on your visit.
Raul Diaz a tourist
says: “I enjoy visiting
El Espino Beach for
your kind people,
whom we gladly serve
and pleasure to all of
us as tourists».
El Espino Beach is
located in beautiful
Usulutan. El Espino
Beach has a long shore
filled with black sand,
it's about a 45 minute
drive from Usulutan,
Usulutan. El Espino
iBeach s filled with
many restaurants to
choose from. Vendors
come long the shore
and sell souvenirs,
fresh fruit and don't
forget the watery
coconuts. In the early
morning, fisherman
come in from sea and
sell fresh fish. Playa El
Espino os one of the
best beaches in El
Salvador guaranteed.
“I enjoy visiting
El Espino Beach
for your kind
people”

Aquapark or Aqua park
is a tourist center and
resort located in
eastern El Salvador,
and one of the most
popular in all
Migueleños, when they
hear about Aquapark
is synonymous with
fun and entertainment
for all the people who
have visited this place.
It has extensive
facilities to make you
feel very good with 6
swimming pools having
enough space to swim
with plenty of space
without being reduced
by small there is no
problem since it has 5
pools for children in
which they can enjoy
and have fun and pass
very well.
Something that
catches the eye is that
it has a river where you
AQUA-PARK
Leyda Zelaya
lyzelaya@hotmail.com
can browse, it is not a
natural water river but
rather an artificial river
therefore not
considered dangerous.
If you feel like you are
on the beach in feel
that feeling because
Aquapark has a wave
pool and being able to
feel like you're on the
beach or hawthorn
cuckoo for example.
The slides are waiting
for people to enjoy
them has several
different types.
For food there is no
problem as they have
different types of food a
la carte fine dining and
an extensive menu of
fast food and ice cream
sodas.
Aquapark is a great
place to go to enjoy
with friends or family
and have a very
pleasant experience for
a moment forget
making work or study,
often in the weekends
has live music making
a complete show in
place .
It has a large parking
lot with a capacity of
300 cars, and a
capacity to
accommodate about
3,000 people.
Where is Aquapark?
How do I get?
Address: In the city of
San Miguel on the
kilometer 156 of the
Carretera
Panamericana to La
Union, this route is
very easy to reach as it
only takes the path to
union and see the
place because it is on
the edge of the street .
.

Lake Olomega is a
large lake in the
southeastern part of El
Salvador.
Lake Olomega is
located next to the
town of Olomega
(population 4000). The
community relies
heavily on fishing and
ecotourism. The
canton Los Riitos has
geothermal water and
can most easily be
reached by boat (as
long as the nimfa does
not prevent boat
travel). With Ramsar
status, the
Government can make
sustainable development
in the area,
thanks to international
support.Olomega is the
eastern region of El
Salvador's, largest
freshwater body. The
LAKE OLOMEGA
Aida Rivera
rociorivera_1991@hotmail.com
site also includes the
surrounding
vegetation, such as
herbaceous swamps
and a patch of forest
seasonally saturated,
known as the Chiriqui
and one of the last
relics of this type of
community in El
Salvador.
The hydrological
features of the site
include flood control,
water purification, and
the replenishment of
groundwater, serving
for more than 9,000
inhabitants of the area.
An electronic report of
the Ramsar
Convention details
show that the lagoon is
home to several
endangered species,
such as the royal duck,
dark ibis, the snail and
the tree frog.
This wetland, which
measures 7,557
hectares, serves as the
resting and feeding
ground for many
migratory birds.
Transportation:
Olomega can be
reached either by
taking a bus directly to
the town, although the
bus to Olomega does
not run often, or by
getting off at El
Carmen (the pueblo,
just off the highway)
and waiting for a truck
to go to Olomega.

Tourist visits to La
Union is never
complete without
visiting the beach
PLAYITAS.
This beach is 6 km.
city in the far east.
Access is by dirt road
which is in
acceptable condition
to travel in any
vehicle, at moderate
speed, and although
is already paved in
some of the reports
issued by the
government, the
reality is that you are
only improvement
work has been
carried out in areas
of difficulty for the
passage of vehicles,
PLAYITAS
Raquel Marquez
rachel_marquez1994@hotmail.com
such as areas of
outstanding and
convergence of
streams that descend
from the heights
Conchagua volcano.
The visitor is greeted
with adequate
parking area, which
is paved, public
restrooms - that is
exposed to the
elements, in order to
remove excess salt
and sand after
swimming in the sea.
The food offer is
hearty, traditional
food there since.
chicken, beef,
expected to seafood,
shrimp, lobsters,
crabs tighteners,
seafood platters, fish
in its varieties and
drinks. all in a
friendly and very
Salvadoran, ie with
hammocks, beach
music and
everything.
Following are two
places of Dona
REYNITA shellfish
named for its owner,
and the restaurant
THE DOLPHIN which
offers spacious and
very comfortable area
and special area with
air conditioning.

We are an organization driven to educate
and entertain the Salvadorian public with
this fast paced, hard-hitting, yet organized
and disciplined American team sport.
We're interested on developing the
knowledge as well as the participation of
the salvadorean community this great
sport: American Football.
“Football is like life, It requires
perseverance, self-denial, hard work,
sacrifice, dedication and respect for
authority. Football doesn't build character
it reveals it”
Maximo A. Blanco
Head - Coach
We’re burning down the house!!!

Representatives of SAAIF are visiting schools to
teach and implement our favorite sport in to the
salvadorian schooling system. Our members are
periodically reminded of their role as an
ambassador to the sport, and their
responsibility to pass it on.
We feel that American Football offers an
interesting alternative to youngsters with
tendancies to obesity. SAAIF trusts that
American Football will stimulate many
youngsters to start practicing the sport of
American Football, knowing that their only
alternative is soccer, which is not suited for
everyone. In addition, a team of American
Football offers many more positions and
possibilities for a school, as it requires many
more players to constitue a team. The only
obstacle is money, as always, to gear up the
team.
MISSION:
Create leaders of change and social
impact using ressources that promote
options for a better way of life, ethics and
health
VISION:
Be a social reform and development
catalyst for youth utilizing American
Football and be recognized nationally
and internationally as a superior
education leader.
VALUES:
Respect authority. Abide to laws and
rules. Respect your neightbor and coplayer.

Steve Agreda, from SAAIF
says: “There’s a lot of
violence in El Salvador and
they don’t have too much
extra-curricular activity, so
you have a lot of kids from
the ages of 8 to about 15 who
are vulnerable to the gang
violence that’s prevalent
down there,” Indeed, the
Mara Salvatrucha gang, is one
of the most feared criminal
organizations in the world
with roughly 50,000 members
in the United States, El
Salvador and other countries
in Central America. The
ruthless gang first sprung up
in the 1980s in Los Angeles,
formed by the children of
immigrants from El Salvador
who had moved north to
escape war and poverty.
Agreda moved to El Salvador
full-time in 2009 to spearhead
efforts to start an American
football program to try to keep
kids off the streets and out of
gangs. That year, a 24-year-
old cousin succumbed to
cancer. It was through an
organization formed out of
that tragedy, Belief Will
Change the World, that Agreda
found himself in his ancestral
homeland. “I played football
myself so I’m passionate
about it,”
Agreda said, when asked why
he chose football as his
vehicle to try to make a
difference. “The sport
allowed me to stay far from
gang life growing up in Los
Angeles. Football is a sport
where you can have
individual efforts in a team
unit to accomplish a lot.
That’s definitely what we
wanted to try to get across to
children in El Salvador, that
through individualism and
working together, you can
become socially responsible
to create a better future for
the country.” The result has
been SAAIF, the Salvadorian
Association of American
Intramural Football. It was
through his work with SAAIF
that Agreda found himself in
Japan for a working holiday.
Tommy Wiking, the president
of the International Federation
of American Football (IFAF)
was in El Salvador in
November and he mentioned
to Agreda that Japanese
football was “very
disciplined.”
Agreda said that through the
SAAIF, they hope to nurture
the league so that one day it
might “actually develop
talent, maybe send a player
to Japan, give people
something to shoot for”. But
that, adds Agreda, would just
be a bonus. “The No. 1 goal is
to teach children the sport
and the beauty of the sport,
which is the camaraderie
between individuals,” he
said. “As far as the children
go, we will stay committed to
that.”