La organización del municipio salvadoreño entre 1840 y 1869. Una aproximación a la construcción del estado desde el ámbito local

This article presents an attempt to the rapprochement of El Salvador State building process from a municipal point of view, in the mid 19th century. It is based on the premise that the local body contributed, however possible, important human and financial resources for building El Salvador as a nineteenth century liberal state. Working on this assumption, it introduces the financial relations between the Salvadoran State and its municipalities. The delegation of responsibilities to municipalities was a strategy of ruling groups, who controlled the central government, to implement a political project, which aimed to achieve a centralized State politically and financially.