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Author: Elssa<br />
Chavez<br />
Alegría a great place for sightseeing in El Salvador<br />
Algeria is one of the most beautiful places that<br />
people can visit and discover here in El Salvador<br />
which is located at approximately 1,200 meters<br />
above sea level in the department of Usulután.<br />
The municipality's cool climate lends itself to many<br />
thriving local plant nurseries, some of which<br />
specialize in tropical flowers such as birds of<br />
paradise, anthuriums, orchids, and varieties of<br />
bromelias. The town is famous for its volcanic lake,<br />
the Alegría Lagoon, which is a national protected<br />
area managed by the NGO ADESCAM<br />
Here there is a description about Alegria langoon<br />
Alegria lagoon<br />
In the Sierra of Chinameca one of the most<br />
important volcanoes is Tecapa, located at 26<br />
kilometers away from Usulután, and 2 kilometers to<br />
the south of Alegria. Its peak, in the famous plain of<br />
Quemela, at 1,603 meters above sea level exhibits a<br />
big rocky crater, oval and guided from east to west<br />
in whose bottom, in eccentric position to the<br />
southeast and at 1,250 meters high, a small crater<br />
form lake of yellow-greenish waters exists, resting<br />
on mantels of sulfur. The highest part of the crater<br />
circumvallation to the northeast is the culminating<br />
point of the volcanic cone and the lowest is to the<br />
east and at 1,275 meters high. In that area a current<br />
of lava was spilled in prehistoric time.<br />
The little lagoon is one of the most beautiful places<br />
of the country. It was called formerly Tecapa, the<br />
same as the volcano, but from recent times it is also<br />
denominated "Laguna de Alegria", because it is next<br />
to the city of the same name. It has thermal sources<br />
and fumaroles, mainly in the northwest direction<br />
and a circumvallation highway for driven vehicles. In<br />
nahuat language the name of Tecapa means<br />
"Lagoon of stones." In the skirts of the volcano<br />
Tecapa, to the north, are the thermal sources or<br />
fumaroles of Bufadero, Tronador, Tronadorcito,<br />
Loma China, and El Pinar.<br />
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