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Mercedes La Ceiba

/meɾˌθedes la ˈθeiba/

proper noun/meɾˌθedes la ˈθeiba/

a town in La Paz department, El Salvador

Literally, “Mercedes the silk-cotton tree”, from mercedes (“mercies”), shortened from María (de las) Mercedes, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Mercy".