Ciudad Vieja (Spanish for "Old City") is an archaeological site located roughly 10 km south of
Suchitoto, in the
Cuscatlán Department
Cuscatlán () is a department of El Salvador, located in the center of the country. With a surface area of , it is El Salvador's smallest department. It is inhabited by over 252,000 people. Cuscatlán or Cuzcatlán was the name the original in ...
of central
El Salvador.
The site served as the first location of
San Salvador, now the
Central America
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n nation's capital.
Status as a World Heritage Site
This site was added to the
UNESCO
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World Heritage
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Tentative List on 21 September 1992 in the cultural category.
References
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Archaeological sites in El Salvador
Cuscatlán Department
Former national capitals
World Heritage Sites in El Salvador