| If airlift is the key to the second home door, then El | | | | second largest U.S. Embassy in the world. The |
| Salvador is the best bargain on the street. It may look | | | | distance between San Salvador and neighbor capital |
| like a fixer upper because of the country's history with | | | | cities of Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua is about |
| hurricanes, earthquakes, war and poverty but its main | | | | the same (4-hour drive). Approximately 70 percent of |
| airport - now the hub of all of Central America soon | | | | the regional commerce is concentrated in these four |
| will be hosting more than 2.5 million passengers a year | | | | countries. |
| - is 20 minutes from the region's Costa del Sol and | | | | TACA International Airlines, owned by a Salvadorian |
| some of the finest beaches on the West Coast. If | | | | family, operates about 65 percent of all the traffic in |
| there is one single amenity that drives second half | | | | and out of the El Salvador International Airport also |
| traffic it is waterfront property and El Salvador has | | | | known as Comalapa International Airport. TACA, which |
| 200 miles of Pacific Ocean coastline that few North | | | | is expanding its hub in El Salvador, provides non-stop |
| Americans have ever seen, let alone researched for a | | | | service to San Salvador from Toronto, New York, |
| real estate purchase. | | | | Washington, D.C., Miami, Los Angeles and Chicago and |
| El Salvador, from the Spanish word "The Savior", is | | | | recently purchased a string of regional carriers that will |
| bordered by Guatemala on the west, by Honduras at | | | | provide additional flights within Central America and the |
| the north, by Nicaragua and the Gulf of Fonseca on | | | | Caribbean. Delta (Atlanta), United, Continental (Houston) |
| the East, and by the Pacific Ocean on the South. It is | | | | and American also provide direct flights to the |
| the smallest country in Central America, and has the | | | | country's capital city. |
| highest density of population in the region and has the | | | | |