Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site World Heritage Site

Official name: Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site | UNESCO
Country: El Salvador | Map
Continent: North America
Location: Department of La Libertad, Canton Joya de Ceren, jurisdiction of San Juan Opico
13.8275° Lat, -89.3691° Lon | Map
Code: 675
Time Zone: America/El_Salvador (CST, -0600)
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Category: Cultural
Description: Inscribed 1993. 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.