Ahuachapan

Ahuachapan is a city and municipality and the capital of the Ahuachapan department in western El Salvador. The municipality which includes the metropolis covers an area of 244.eighty four km² and as of 2007 has a populace of one hundred ten,511 human beings. located close to the Guatemalan border, it is the westernmost metropolis inside the united states of america and is the center of an agricultural place producing in most cases espresso. Ahuachapan is the website of a geothermal strength plant and a hydroelectric station.

The local geothermal hobby produces many steam vents, visible all through the encircling mountains. amongst other things, Ahuachapan is also the birthplace of awesome Salvadoran poet Alfredo Espino and is ready an hour's pressure from the country wide natural world park El Imposible. Ahuachapan turned into founded through Mayan Indians of the Pokomanes tribe in the fifth century and invaded inside the fifteenth century by way of the Izalcos. It officially gained town repute on 11 February, 1862 and have become the departmental capital on February 9, 1869.