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

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n nation's capital.

Status as a World Heritage Site

This site was added to the

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Tentative List on 21 September 1992 in the cultural category.

References

{{authority control Archaeological sites in El Salvador Cuscatlán Department Former national capitals World Heritage Sites in El Salvador