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Rosario de Mora

district in Southern San Salvador, El Salvador

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ3941398 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rosario de Mora is a district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador. According to the Census of Population and Housing 2007, has 11,377 inhabitants.

History

In the 1807 "The Rosary" was a farm located within the town limits of Panchimalco, years later it became Canton Township. On April, 7 1894 it was renamed as Rosario de Mora.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rosario de Mora” is district in Southern San Salvador, El Salvador. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rosario, Mora and district, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 1807, 1894—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Rosario, Mora and district is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “district in Southern San Salvador, El Salvador” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3941398. Authority coordinates are 13.574, -89.206. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007, 1807 and 1894.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Rosario de Mora”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rosario de Mora primary sources, Rosario de Mora archive and Rosario research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Rosario de Mora”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Rosario de Mora” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.