The San Salvador Department (in Spanish, Departamento San Salvador) is an administrative subdivision (departamento

Departments of Argentina

Departments form the second level of administrative division in the provinces of Argentina. There are no departments in the city of Buenos Aires, which has so far been divided into neighbourhoods as its administrative divisions, but is to be divided now into communes by a recently passed local act...

) of Entre Ríos Province

Entre Ríos Province

Entre Ríos is a northeastern province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires , Corrientes and Santa Fe , and Uruguay in the east....

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, created in 1995. It is located in the center-east of the province.

The department has 16,118 inhabitants as per the 2001 census [INDEC], which are distributed in 4 districts. The head town is San Salvador

San Salvador, Entre Ríos

San Salvador is a city in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It has 11,626 inhabitants per the , and is the head town of the San Salvador Department...

, which has a population of 11,626. Other towns are General Campos

General Campos

General Campos is a town in the center-east of the Province of Entre Ríos, Argentina.It is located about 35 km west of the Uruguay River and 220 km east from the provincial capital Paraná.The town was founded on June 8, 1913....

, Colonia Baylina, San Ernesto and Walter Moss.