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Departamento de La Unión

First-level unit, El Salvador: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-SLV-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO SLV / SVStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
215,474
people (GHSL 2025)
2,036 km²
area
3.4%
of El Salvador
20
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Departamento de La Unión

The 20 ADM2 units of Departamento de La Unión.

FIG 1 · 20 units inside Departamento de La Unión
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Mense · GHSL 2025

215,474

3.4% of El Salvador.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

217,356

+1% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

2,036 km²

106 people per km².

Code

departamento-de-la-union

No subdivision code in the boundary source.

Laagliggende kussone

7,804

people on land at or below 10 m, 3.6% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

20 units inside Departamento de La Unión

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · Public Domain.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Anamoros – 7,869 7,990 88.08 89 3.5% 0
Bolivar – 2,373 2,267 57.12 42 1.1% 0
Concepcion de Oriente – 5,375 5,626 71.25 75 2.4% 0
Conchagua – 44,550 40,083 271.87 164 19.9% 2,786
El Carmen – 9,921 11,848 103.36 96 4.4% 0
El Sauce – 9,416 8,365 126.93 74 4.2% 0
Intipuca – 8,413 7,859 110.91 76 3.8% 1,036
La Union – 13,963 12,190 59.37 235 6.2% 986
Lislique – 14,317 13,855 106.6 134 6.4% 0
Meanguera del Golfo – 483 439 17.71 27 0.2% 0
Nueva Esparta – 11,366 11,676 93.56 121 5.1% 0
Null – 894 894 10.36 86 0.4% 0
Null – 9,353 19,556 90.47 103 4.2% 154
Pasaquina – 17,558 18,238 256.77 68 7.8% 1,011
Poloros – 11,049 8,302 125.57 88 4.9% 0
San Alejo – 13,709 15,408 234.38 58 6.1% 564
San Jose – 3,404 3,731 49.18 69 1.5% 0
Santa Rosa de Lima – 28,834 27,668 142.39 203 12.9% 0
Yayantique – 4,768 5,016 53.48 89 2.1% 0
Yucuaiquin – 6,063 5,989 47.35 128 2.7% 0
04Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Hawens
None at this resolution
Lughawens
None at this resolution
Major roads
251.1 H3 cells
Spoorweë
76.8 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Risiko

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Departamento de La Unión publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for El Salvador.
07Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SLV ADM1, source: Open Street Map, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SLV ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2007
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Lande
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.