Ahuachapan is the capitol of the department of Ahuachapan in the the country of El Salvador, central America. It is a city of over 280,000 people about ten miles from the western border with Guatemala.
Among other things, it is known for the local geothermal activity that produces many steam vents visible throughout the surrounding mountains. It is also the birthplace of notable Salvadoran poet Alfredo Espino. It is about an hour's drive from the national wildlife park El Imposible.
Margarita Jimenez (right), from Ahuachapan, signs an agreement document to participate in El Salvador Surface Water Diversion, Storage and Use Project.
General view of erosion control and infiltration practices carried out in a priority watershed located in Guaymango, Ahuachapan.
Guaymango residents view the new erosion control and infiltration practices in the Guaymango watershed of Ahuachapan.
AHUACHAPAN province, El Salvador -- To the naked eye, Tacuba and Guaymango resemble any other isolated, poor Central American mountain villages defined by timelessness and obscurity.
Nearly 10 percent of them hail from the rural towns of Tacuba and Guaymango in the Ahuachapan province -- three hours by travel in rickety "chicken busses" west of the capital, San Salvador, and almost impossible to locate on the map without a microscope.
That would have entailed flying to the air base near Ahuachapan and then jolting down a series of unpaved dirt roads to face a poverty that few soldiers in the coalition of the willing would recognize.
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