Izalco

Izalco is a municipality in the Sonsonate branch of El Salvador. Volcan Izalco is an icon of the usa of El Salvador, a very young Volcano on the flank of Santa Ana volcano. From whilst it become born in 1770 until 1966, it changed into in almost continuous eruption and changed into referred to as the "lighthouse of the Pacific." Since then it's been nearly inactive.

According to the conventional story from Juan de Torquemada, the closing survivor of Tula, Topilzin Acxitl Quetzalcóhuatl II moved to Central America due to the disintegrate of the Toltec way of life inside the Anahuac valley. There, he based Escuintla, and afterwards Tepcan-Izalco or tecupan ishatcu and later, Cuscatlan. However - even though the precise chronology is unknown clinical investigations established the arrival of the nahuat humans in salvadorean territory in diverse migrations between the years 900 AD and 1500 AD. More exactly, the izalcans were one of the four branches of the nahuats who settled within the vicinity, in conjunction with the cuzcatlecos, nonualcos, and mazahuas. They have been also part of a group of metropolis-states that the Spanish known as Tecpan-Izalco, which comprised 15 settlements. The maximum excellent among them have been Izalco, Caluco, Nahulingo, and Tacus-calco.