San Andrés
San Andrés is a pre-Columbian site in El Salvador, whose occupation began around the year 900 BC as an agricultural town in the valley of Zapotitán in the department of La Libertad.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in southwestern El Salvador
- Also known as: “Ingenio San Andres”, “Parque Arqueológico San Andrés”, “San Andrés Archaeological Site”, and “San Andrés, El Salvador”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Joya de Ceren and Ciudad Arce.
Joya de Ceren
Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Joya de Ceren is an archaeological site in Western El Salvador. It was a Mayan village that was buried under tons of lava when the nearby San Salvador Volcano erupted in 600 AD.
Ciudad Arce
Town
Ciudad Arce is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador. It is approximately 25 kilometres northwest of the national capital, San Salvador. It is named after Manuel José Arce. Ciudad Arce is situated 7 km northwest of San Andrés.
San Juan Opico
Town
San Juan Opico is a municipality in the La Libertad department of El Salvador. It is located 42 kilometers from San Salvador, capital of the country. The municipality has an area of 218 km2 and a population of 74,280 inhabitants; according to the 2007 census it is ranked No. San Juan Opico is situated 9 km north of San Andrés.
San Andrés
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: La Libertad Department, El Salvador, Central America, North America
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Latitude
13.80076° or 13° 48′ 3″ northLongitude
-89.38853° or 89° 23′ 19″ westElevation
487 metres (1,598 feet)Open location code
765GRJ26+8HOpenStreetMap ID
way 313089732OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“San Andrés” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սան Անդրես (Սալվադոր)”
- Armenian: “Սան Անդրես”
- Bengali: “স্যান আন্দ্রেস, এল সালভাদোর”
- Bulgarian: “Сан Андрес”
- Catalan: “San Andrés (El Salvador)”
- Catalan: “San Andrés”
- Esperanto: “San Andres”
- Esperanto: “San Andrés”
- French: “San Andrés”
- German: “San Andrés”
- Hungarian: “San Andrés”
- Italian: “San Andrés”
- Japanese: “サン・アンドレアス”
- Japanese: “サン・アンドレス”
- Occitan (post 1500): “San Andrés”
- Portuguese: “San Andrés”
- Russian: “Сан-Андрес”
- Spanish: “Museo de sitio arqueologico San Andres”
- Spanish: “Museo de sitio arqueologico San Andrés”
- Spanish: “Museo de sitio arqueológico San Andres”
- Spanish: “Museo de sitio arqueológico San Andrés”
- Spanish: “Ruinas de San Andres”
- Spanish: “Ruinas de San Andrés”
- Spanish: “San Andres”
- Spanish: “San Andrés”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Андрес”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “San Andrés”. Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 3.0.