Ruins of San Andres
Joya de Ceren
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Joya de Ceren is a pre-Columbian site in El Salvador that depicts the daily life of indigenous settlements before the Spanish conquest, which was accidentally discovered in 1976. A unique place throughout Mesoamerica.
San Andres is a pre-Hispanic Mayan site of El Salvador, whose long occupation began around 900 BC. C. as an agricultural town in the Zapotitán valley of the department of La Libertad. This early settlement was vacated by the year 250 because of the huge eruption of the caldera of Lake Ilopango, and was again occupied in the fifth century along with many other sites in the Zapotitán valley. Between 600 and 900 d. C. San Andrés was the capital of a Mayan dominion with supremacy over the other settlements of the Valley. Mesoamerica.