Information sheet
Site Name
Joya de Cerén
Tangible
Address
Sitio del Niño, El Salvador
Description and Features of the SITE/ASSET
The only Salvadoran archaeological site with a category of cultural heritage of humanity. Valuable for being the only settlement of the common people of the Mayan region, buried by the eruption of the Laguna Caldera volcano around 590 AD. comparable with Pompei in Italy. (image:By Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons)