Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site - UNESCO World Heritage Site

Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site

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Department of La Libertad, Canton Joya de Ceren, jurisdiction of San Juan Opico El Salvador

From UNESCO:

Joya de Cerén was a pre-Hispanic farming community that, like Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy, was buried under an eruption of the Laguna Caldera volcano c. AD 600. Because of the exceptional condition of the remains, they provide an insight into the daily lives of the Central American populations who worked the land at that time.