El Salvador legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Salvadoran laws, regulations, and court decisions live across the Diario Oficial published by the Imprenta Nacional, the Asamblea Legislativa, government ministries, regulators, and the courts. Lawstronaut structures legal data from official sources into one format used across more than 150 jurisdictions — with every record linked to its official source. Structured El Salvador coverage is not yet live; Team and Enterprise customers can request priority onboarding of the sources below.
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Which Salvadoran law made Bitcoin legal tender?
The Ley Bitcoin — Decreto Legislativo No. 57 of 8 June 2021, enacted by the Asamblea Legislativa and published in the Diario Oficial No. 110, Tomo 431, on 9 June 2021 — established Bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador; it was subsequently amended in early 2025 to make acceptance by businesses voluntary.
Source: Asamblea Legislativa / Diario Oficial (Imprenta Nacional) — imprentanacional.gob.sv
Illustrative — El Salvador coverage is not yet live in the corpus; citation shown from the official source.
The official Salvadoran sources on our roadmap
Lawstronaut structures Salvadoran legal materials from official government, ministry, court, and regulator sources. Once El Salvador coverage is live, each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: legislation portals · government ministries and agencies · regulators · courts and tribunals · gazette and publication sources
- Diario Oficial (Imprenta Nacional)
- Asamblea Legislativa — Centro de Documentación Legislativa
- Corte Suprema de Justicia — Centro de Documentación Judicial
- Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador (BCR)
- Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero (SSF)
- Superintendencia de Competencia
- Defensoría del Consumidor
- Fiscalía General de la República
Salvadoran legal source types we structure
Salvadoran legal coverage will include primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Leyes, decretos legislativos, decretos ejecutivos, reglamentos, and acuerdos, taken directly from the Diario Oficial and the Asamblea Legislativa's Centro de Documentación Legislativa.
Legislative History
Anteproyectos de ley, dictámenes, and parliamentary materials from the unicameral Asamblea Legislativa where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Normas técnicas, instructivos, resoluciones, and enforcement materials from Salvadoran regulators such as the Banco Central de Reserva, the Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero, and the Superintendencia de Competencia.
Case Law
Decisions of the Corte Suprema de Justicia — including the Sala de lo Constitucional and the Sala de lo Contencioso Administrativo — from official Salvadoran sources, where available.
One Salvadoran legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Salvadoran laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools. El Salvador coverage is being onboarded — the endpoint below is live and will return records as coverage lands.
GET /v2/contents?iso=SV&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Salvadoran legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Salvadoran materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work, once coverage is live.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Salvadoran legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Salvadoran legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you'll be able to do with Salvadoran legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Salvadoran legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Salvadoran law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Salvadoran sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Salvadoran legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Salvadoran legal research
Salvadoran legal information is spread across the Diario Oficial, the Asamblea Legislativa, ministries, statutory agencies, regulators, courts, and publication sources. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About El Salvador legal coverage
El Salvador is a civil-law jurisdiction in the Spanish legal tradition, with a unitary national legal system under the 1983 Constitution. Primary legislation — leyes and decretos legislativos — is enacted by the unicameral Asamblea Legislativa and promulgated in the Diario Oficial, published by the Imprenta Nacional, with consolidated texts maintained through the Asamblea's Centro de Documentación Legislativa. Case law is developed by the Corte Suprema de Justicia, whose Sala de lo Constitucional exercises constitutional review. Regulatory policy sits with bodies such as the Banco Central de Reserva, the Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero, the Superintendencia de Competencia, and the Defensoría del Consumidor. Legal materials are published in Spanish.
Salvadoran law has moved quickly in recent years: the 2021 Ley Bitcoin made Bitcoin legal tender before being amended in 2025 to make acceptance voluntary under an IMF-linked reform, a Personal Data Protection Law was enacted in 2024, and the ongoing régimen de excepción has driven a wave of security legislation — so citations to superseded provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps an El Salvador legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Salvadoran legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Salvadoran regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Salvadoran legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Salvadoran legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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