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Pulgarcito de América
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Spanish
Etymology
Americas' Little Thumb, named so because El Salvador is the smallest country in the mainland of the Americas. es Julio Enrique Ávila Villafañe Salvadoran 1 - in his speech titled El Salvador, Pulgarcito de América broadcast on the RDN radio, on September 15, 1937 (Independence Day in El Salvador).en Carlos Cañas Dinarte El migueleño que creó la frase "El Salvador, Pulgarcito de América" w:El Diario de Hoy https://www.elsalvador.com/entretenimiento/cultura/el-migueleno-que-creo-la-frase-salvador-pulgarcito-de-america-/1141775/2024/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250624081238/https://www.elsalvador.com/entretenimiento/cultura/el-migueleno-que-creo-la-frase-salvador-pulgarcito-de-america-/1141775/2024/ 24 June 2025 2024-05-11 2024-09-08 The term is sometimes mistakenly attributed to Gabriela Mistral.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m Pulgarcito de América
es colloquial El Salvador
References
es Nicknames for countries