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I never associated El Salvador with the Mayas, but they were here! This is San Andres, a regional center in the Valle Zapotitan. At its peak 12,000 people may have lived here.
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But volcanoes! An enormous eruption of Ilopango volcano ~430 AD caused everyone to flee or die.
Later this became a Spanish estate, buried by a 1658 eruption of Playon #volcano. #dangerousplace
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