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Felipe Codallos ( born in Guatemala ) was a Central American general and politician . From May 7 , 1823 to May 25 , 1823 he was chief of state of the State of El Salvador within the Federal Republic of Central America , governing as military chief . General Codallos was captain general of the Provinces of Guatemala from November 22 , 1822 to March 7 , 1823 , under the Mexican Empire of Agustin de Iturbide . When Mexican General Vicente Filisola , who was in charge of enforcing Mexican authority in Central America , returned to Mexico , he named his second - in - charge , Codallos , military chief of El Salvador . On May 25 , 1823 the city government of San Salvador rebelled and required Imperial General Codallos and his 500 Mexican and Guatemalan soldiers to evacuate the city . A consultative junta then took power , led by Colonel José Rivas . On July 1 , 1823 El Salvador , along with the rest of Central America , declared independence from the Mexican Empire . San Salvador ( ___MASK100___ : " Holy Savior ") is the capital city of El Salvador and of San Salvador Department . It is the country ' s political , cultural , educational and financial center . The San Salvador metropolitan area , which comprises San Salvador and thirteen of its surrounding municipalities , is one of the largest urban centers in Central America , with a projected population of 1 , 767 , 102 in 2015 . The Federal Republic of Central America , also called the United Provinces of Central America in its first year of creation , was a sovereign state in Central America , which consisted of the territories of the former Captaincy General of Guatemala of New ___MASK29___ . It existed from September 1821 to 1841 , and was a republican democracy . It is also sometimes incorrectly referred to in English as the United States of Central America . The Captaincy General of Guatemala , also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala ( ___MASK46___ : " Reino de Guatemala "), was an administrative division of the ___MASK46___ Empire in Central America , including the present - day nations of Costa Rica , Nicaragua , Honduras , El Salvador , Belize and Guatemala , and the Mexican state of Chiapas . The governor - captain general was also president of the Royal Audiencia of Guatemala . El Salvador , officially the Republic of El Salvador ( literally " Republic of The Savior "), is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America . El Salvador ' s capital and largest city is San Salvador . , the country had a population of approximately 6 . 38 million , consisting largely of Mestizos of European and Indigenous American descent . Honduras , officially the Republic of Honduras , is a republic in Central America . It has at times been referred to as ___MASK46___ Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras , which became modern - day Belize . Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala , to the southwest by El Salvador , to the southeast by Nicaragua , to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca , and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras , a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea . New ___MASK29___ was a colonial territory of the ___MASK46___ Empire , in the New World north of the Isthmus of Panama . It was established following the ___MASK46___ conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521 , and following additional conquests , it was made a viceroyalty ( ___MASK46___ : " virreinato ") in 1535 . The first of four viceroyalties ___MASK29___ created in the Americas , it comprised Mexico , Central America , much of the Southwestern and Central United States , and ___MASK46___ Florida as well as the Philippines , Guam , Mariana and Caroline Islands . Guatemala (, or ), officially the Republic of Guatemala , is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west , the Pacific Ocean to the southwest , Belize to the northeast , the Caribbean to the east , Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast . With an estimated population of around 15 . 8 million , it is the most populated state in Central America . A representative democracy , Guatemala ' s capital and largest city is Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción , also known as Guatemala City . Mestizo ( Peninsular ___MASK46___ : , Latin American ___MASK46___ , Philippine ___MASK46___ : ) is a term traditionally used in Spain and ___MASK46___ America to mean a person of combined European and Amerindian descent , or someone who would have been deemed a Castizo ( one European parent and one Mestizo parent ) regardless if the person was born in Latin America or elsewhere . The term was used as an ethnic / racial category in the casta system that was in use during the ___MASK46___ Empire ' s control of their New World colonies . Mestizos are usually considered to be mixed Spaniards by the crown of Spain .