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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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