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Fiestas Patronales de Tejutepeque in Tejutepeque
Tejutepeque, a small Cabañas department city, honors San Rafael Arcangel with fiestas patronales from October 20 to 25. The town earned the nickname Circasia Salvadorena in the past century for the beauty of its young women, who were frequently sought to ride decorated floats in the larger fiestas patronales of neighboring Cojutepeque and San Vicente.
Tejutepeque, a small city in Cabañas department, carries an unusual bit of regional folklore in its unofficial nickname: Circasia Salvadorena, a reference to Circassia, a historic region of the Caucasus mountains that nineteenth-century literature and art often idealized as home to exceptional beauty.