Laguna Cuzcachapa

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Laguna Cuzcachapa
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Geographical location Santa Ana Department , El Salvador
Tributaries no
Drain none
Data
Coordinates 13 ° 58 '59 "  N , 89 ° 40' 15"  W Coordinates: 13 ° 58 '59 "  N , 89 ° 40' 15"  W
Laguna Cuzcachapa (El Salvador)
Laguna Cuzcachapa
Altitude above sea level 700  m
surface 1 km²

The Laguna Cuzcachapa is the crater lake of a volcano in the Santa Ana department in western El Salvador, extinct decades ago .

location

The approximately one square kilometer large and tree-framed Laguna Cuzcachapa is located on the eastern edge of the city of Chalchuapa at an altitude of about 700 m above sea level. d. M. The lake has neither inflows nor outflows; its water level is only regulated by rainfall. Depending on the water level, the crater walls of the lake drop from the surrounding land area by around 20 m to 25 m.

history

The crater lake, which never dries out, was probably the reason for early settlement in the region, which could possibly go back to around 5000 BC. Goes back to BC. The Mayan cities of Tazumal and Casa Blanca, built much later, as well as other smaller archaeological sites in the area, indicate continued settlement.

See also

literature

  • EL SALVADOR. INSTITUTO GEOGRÁFICO NACIONAL. Diccionario Geográfico de El Salvador Tomo I. San Salvador: Talleres Litográficos del Instituto Geográfico Nacional “Ingeniero Pablo Arnoldo Guzmán”, 1985. pp. 189-192.
  • Bruce A. Anderson: Excavations at Laguna Cuzcachapa and Laguna Seca . In: Robert J. Sharer (Ed.): The Prehistory of Chalchuapa, El Salvador. University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania 1978, Vol. I, pp. 43-46
  • William R. Fowler: El Salvador. Antiguas Civilizaciones. Haff-Daugherty Graphics, Miami 1995

supporting documents

  1. ↑ See literature

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