You can call it salsa guitar or playing montunos or trying to sound like a tres.

There are plenty of styles of latin

music that more or less fall under the salsa umbrella. Mambo, son, son-montuno, montuno, cha-cha, songo,
timba, latin jazz are some that are fairly well known. (At least enough so that I know about them) Salsa guitar
is cool because it helps you look at how the guitar can be played, especially if you are used to playing in
more strumming of chordal styles. Plus you get to play salsa!
One way to start is try to play what either a tres or cuatro is playing or to try an imitate part of what the piano
is doing. The basic riff (montuno) would be something like what you hear on La Bamba, but unless you are
playing La Bamba, you dont want the montuno to sound like La Bamba!
Well get back to playing a few montunos. First learn about some of the basic rhythms that you should be able
to hear. Once you hear it, you will be able to fit what you are playing into what the rest of the band is playing.