Concepcion de Ataco

Concepcion de Ataco is a municipality and city inside the Ahuachapán branch, El Salvador. It has an area of sixty one.03 km ² and a populace of 18,one hundred and one population. The municipality management is split into eleven cantons, which might be: El Arco, El Limo, El Naranjito, El Tronconal, los angeles Ceiba, la Joya de los Apante, l. a. Planxa, San Jose, Shucutitan and Texusín Chirizo. Atacos's populace has pre-Columbian origin and became based via Yaqui Indians or pipiles in principal Apaneca Mountain range. In Nahuatl, Ataco manner "high area of springs.”

Concepcion de Ataco's "sister town" is Elk Grove, California. Archbishop Pedro Cortes y Larraz, Ataco in 1770 belonged to the parish and its people Ahuachapan was represented by using 303 households with 784 indigenous individuals who spoke the Nahuatl of the Pipil turn those people spoke and understood additionally Castilian. within the colonial duration Ataco belonged to the administration of the province or municipality over Izalco Sonsonate. As of June 12, 1824 belonged to the municipality of primitive and terrific branch of Sonsonate.