Tazumal is situated within the municipality of Chalchuapa in the department of Santa Ana, within the Río Paz drainage basin. The ruins are at an altitude of 720 metres above mean sea level. It is about 120 kilometres from the contemporary Maya city of Kaminaljuyu. Tazumal is 4 kilometres southwest of the small Late Classic site of Alumulunga.
The population of Tazumal coexisted with the Nahua-speaking Pipils from the Classic through to the Early Postclassic until at least AD 1200.
ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE
TAZUMAL.