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El Salvador
UNESCO world heritage sites
La Libertad department
[capital = San Salvador]
Archaeological Site
in
Joya de Ceren
at
Km 32, Carr San Juan Opico - Agua Escondida
Joya de Ceren 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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