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Encyclopedia > Chalchuapa

Chalchuapa is a city and a municipality in the Santa Ana department of El Salvador. The city is near the Mayan Tazumal ruins. A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Categories: Central America geography stubs | Departments of El Salvador ... A list of the departments of El Salvador in alphabetical order. ... Tazumal is a Pre-Columbian Maya archeological site in Chalchuapa, El Salvador. ...


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Chalchuapa's main draw is the archeological site of Tazumal (Tues-Sun 9am-5pm; US$3), located on the edge of town.
What is now the town of Chalchuapa was the seat of power for a strong and thriving Maya population from 900 BC onwards.
The catastrophic eruption of Volcán Ilopango in around 250 AD, covering an area of ten thousand square kilometres in ash, did not affect Chalchuapa as badly as the central zone of the country; the area quickly repopulated and Tazumal gradually became the main settlement.
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