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Type of Political Entity: El Savidor is a nation-state and it can be defined as a presidential republic. According to, "UPITT Press," "El Salvador is Latin America's least researched nation-state, perhaps because of the perceived absence of a large, visible, and “exotic” indigenous population to attract the attention of foreign anthropologists, as occurred in southern Mexico and Guatemala" (Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford).
Autonomous or Semi-Autonomous: El Salvador used to have an autonomous region within it, but it has since been incorporated into El Salvador. "Brittanica" states, " The area to the west (comprising the present-day regions of Sonsonate, Santa Ana, and Ahuachapán), which the Pipil called Izalcos, was organized in 1558 as the autonomous province of Sonsonate and would not be incorporated as a part of El Salvador until 1823" (El Salvador).
There are semi-autonomous "mini-states" within El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala (The Northern Triangle countries) that are run by gangs. "Prism National Defense University" states, "the reality is that across the Northern Triangle, gangs have created a confederation of semi-autonomous mini-states within each country that coordinate more closely than the national governments" (Douglas Farah and Kathryn Babineau). The images to the right display the Northern Triangle countries.
Stateless Nations and Multistate Nations: The Mayans of El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, United States, Belize, and Honduras make up stateless nations within these countries. The Mayans have their own independent city-states within these countries, they self-govern and have their own language and flag. El Salvador is a multistate nation.
The image on the right displays Mayan ruins in El Salvador.
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