Eventually, for reasons of work I have to leave the office and visit some villages inside the country, I hope these outlets as fresh water, I really like the field work, see other places and see people in their daily activities, not by choice I am an anthropologist.
The past week I visited the village of Yayantique, department of La Unión, a small town of less than fifteen streets, where about 7,000 people live. A dormitory town, most people engaged in farming or working in some office in San Miguel service. Yayantique
live the quiet that allows the distance of the cities, kept their shops where one can go and buy an item without the presence of bars they leave out the consumer or a guard always monitored, the streets are clean and quiet, the bus service are summarized in two arrivals and two departures on the day in a morning shift and one evening. Yayantique
The name comes from the giant squid which means "Hill of the capulines" Yayan means Capulin and Tique, hill. El Capulin is a low tree height has a small fruit red or purple, whose scientific name is Prunus virginiana, is famous for that the fruit is highly prized by birds and bats.
The past week I visited the village of Yayantique, department of La Unión, a small town of less than fifteen streets, where about 7,000 people live. A dormitory town, most people engaged in farming or working in some office in San Miguel service. Yayantique
live the quiet that allows the distance of the cities, kept their shops where one can go and buy an item without the presence of bars they leave out the consumer or a guard always monitored, the streets are clean and quiet, the bus service are summarized in two arrivals and two departures on the day in a morning shift and one evening. Yayantique
The name comes from the giant squid which means "Hill of the capulines" Yayan means Capulin and Tique, hill. El Capulin is a low tree height has a small fruit red or purple, whose scientific name is Prunus virginiana, is famous for that the fruit is highly prized by birds and bats.
Contradiction in the central park there is not a wild cherry tree, I noticed that next to City Hall a neighbor has planted a garden in front, but the local government does little to do honor to the name of the village to tell you that in the middle of the park has placed a statue of Manneken Pis , the main symbol City of Brussels, this is the famous image of a boy urinating, I see no reason to put in the center of a symbol Belgian Yayantique probably seemed funny idea to put the mayor and ended up in the park Manneken Pis central.
The town is nestled on top of a hill, thus avoiding the terrible suffering valley temperatures down, but on hot days or Yayantique be saved, heat can creep deforested slopes of the hill and reach the people, it is still possible with a cool breeze coming down from the north. Apart from a relatively cool climate, the height allows a lovely view of the valley where San Miguel, with its giant volcano Chaparrastique which ends up being its location across the East.
Yayantique People are simple and hospitable, only has two cafes in the town center, a pharmacy and four variety stores that manage to supply what is necessary for the population. The Catholic church dedicated to Our Lady of Candelaria is located opposite the central park, has no specific date of its construction and ignores local people, was probably erected in its present form during the nineteenth century (The Chronicles of Cortez and Larraz indicate that in 1770 the church was a simple Xacal, straw hut), the building has undergone several changes during the past , was painted last year, and did it with a fiery yellow, taking into account the sickening stupidity of the Salvadorans in their churches painted white "colonial" is to applaud them get the "right" color and vary recently, churches have always had bright colors (red, blue, purple, green and yellow), but sometime in the twentieth century came up with whitewash, now Salvadorans are so convinced that the color "colonial" must be white, no more!. It's so easy to shop around Guatemala and Mexico in their traditional villages to realize that the true color of the temples is any less white .
is a small town only has four schools, but has two bars that would become the fly in the ointment, the Public Security Ministry considers that the rate of alcoholism in Yayantique is high, but to be honest I did not observe any "metabolite" asleep in the gutter as usual, in fact, the people seemed very quiet for a day at the town's streets, where it is also common to see a lot of dogs sleeping in the shade of the trees.
It says there is a cave called Culquinte around where there is rock art, unfortunately the mission which was not visited Yayantique ethnographic and archaeological so I could not make sure, is to return another day and explore it, the problem is access The dirt road goes from bad to worse, you must use a vehicle that can get around the rocks on the way to arrive, but after all, perhaps the remoteness and the difficulty of getting there is what keeps people in relative peace, living an idyllic past.
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