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World Heritage Sites in El Salvador
El Salvador has 1 site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 1 cultural. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
SITES1
CULTURAL · NATURAL1 · 0
IN DANGER0
By heritage type
Cultural1 · 100%
Natural0 · 0%
Mixed0 · 0%
Notable sites in El Salvador
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
culturalJoya de Cerén Archaeological Site1993
Joya de Cerén was a pre-Hispanic farming community that, like Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy, was buried under an eruption of the Laguna Caldera volcano c. AD 600. Because of the exceptional condition of the remains, they provide an insight into the daily lives of the Central American po…