joya de cerén
states: [el salvador]
category: cultural
year: 1993
location: Department of La Libertad, Canton Joya de Ceren, jurisdiction of San Juan Opico
region: Latin America and the Caribbean
latitude/longitude: 13.8275000000, -89.3691666700
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.
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