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General Information
(1863-1955), Alberto Masferrer, Salvador Salazar
Arrué, Claudia Lars, Alfredo Espino, Pedro Geoffroy
Rivas, Manlio Argueta and the poet Roque Dalton.
Important well known people from the XX century
are filmmaker Baltasar Polío and Guillermo Escalón;
Miss El Salvador Maribel Arrieta, the singer Alvaro
Torres and the painter Fernando Llort. The most
renowned artists are painters: Noé Canjura,
Carlos Cañas, Julia Díaz, Camilo Minero, Ricardo
Carbonell, Roberto Huezo and many others.
Religions
Since the Colonial period catholicism has been
the main religion, with followers making up close
to 65% of the population. Different religions such
as Protestant, Anglicans, Lutherans, Pentecostals,
Baptists, Seventh Day Adventists, Mormons and
Jehovah Witnesses have greatly increased since
the decade of the 70’s. In the last twenty years the
followers of the Salvadoran Catholic Church have
diminished by 11.9%; almost the same percentage
that the other religions have increased in the same
period of time.
Today, close to 34% of the population are of the
Protestant Christian faith. There are also small
Jewish and Islamic communities that have originated
due to immigration.
Right page: San Salvador cathedral