~SPANISH LITTLE TOWN~

On April 16, 1854, a major earthquake devasted the village still San Salvador, it was then that he thought, moving the capital to a safer place and decide that the beautiful scenery of the "Hacienda Santa Tecla" was the ideal place , and August 8, 1854, issued a decree which allocated the farm to became the site of the New San Salvaldor, despite being just a step away from the volcano suspect Quezaltepec (San Salvador volcano), noted that this area was less shifting.

The president Jose Maria San Martin, wanted an elegant city, a pretty picture representing city in the country. The government distributed land to the new neignbors able to grow coffee on a large scale, and established rewards to those who planted, but the June , 1854, the General Gerardo Barrios agredd to transfer to the authorities of Cojutepeque the history of San Salvador, so no governor had head adquarters in The New San Salvador.

Yet the city continued to grow in where he lived Juan Jose Cañas, creator of the National Anthem in 1879.

On January 28, 1865 Santa Tecla, to which the capital was denied , he became so far as the deparmental capital of La Libertad.