Tejutepeque (Cabanas, El Salvador)

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Overview

The name Tejutepeque derives from the prefix Tejut or Texut = brasa (English: embers, hot coal) and Tepec = cerro (English: hill). The city then means "Cerro de las brasas" (English: hot coal hill, or embers hill), an expression used to indicate a place of hot climate. This name comes from N�huatl (or Classic Aztec) Testutepec. It also means: "Cerro de las Tejas" (English: Roof tiles hill), "Cerro Caracol de Piedra" (English: Stone snail hill) or "Cerro Azul" (English: Blue hill).

The village of Tejutepeque, in the jurisdiction of the town of Ilobasco, was erected as a town by law of March 6, 1847, considering that it had the number of inhabitants and circumstances required to constitute a municipality. Then in 1856, being governor of the Department of Cuscatl�n, Don Francisco Revelo, suppressed the municipality of Tejutepeque and annexed it to Ilobasco as a village or canton, just as it had been before it was declared a village, because it lacked the conditions and population required to be a village again.

In the refoundation of the municipality, in statistical reports of Ilobasco, of December 20, 1859, Tejutepeque still figures as a village or canton of its jurisdiction; but in statistical data concerning 1861 it appears again as a municipality.

Then, by law issued by the National Constituent Assembly, on February 10, 1873, Tejutepeque was incorporated into the department of Caba�as and segregated from Cuscatl�n, to which it had belonged since its foundation.

Then, by Legislative Decree of January 25, 1879, was given the title again of Villa (English: Village) and finally in 1996 it was granted the status of city."
Sources: http://www.municipiosdeelsalvador.com/cabanas/tejutepeque and
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejutepeque

For additional information go to Tejutepeque (official website): http://www.tejutepeque.com/
Esteban Rivera, 30 August 2018

Coat of Arms

Reported Arms in 2018

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Reported Arms in 2014

image by Fred Drews, 20 April 2014