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Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site

El Salvador
Date of Inscription: 1993
Criteria: (iii)(iv)
Department of La Libertad, Canton Joya de Ceren, jurisdiction of San Juan Opico
N13 49 39 W89 22 9
Ref: 675

Brief Description

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.

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