El Salvador
in Central America
North America

National active POI Bordering countries
Country Quickfacts
Currency and Currency Code:
Dollar - USD
Spoken languages:
Spanish
Local electricity:
120 V - 60 Hz (plugs: A, B)
Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1900 MHz, 3G, 4G
ISO 2-Letter code:
SV
Internet top level domain:
.sv
Country phone prefix:
+503
Local Time (capital):
Timezone:
UTC/GMT offset: hours

Map of Salvadoran Unesco Heritage Sites

Click any of the markers above to learn more about the corresponding heritage site and learn more about El Salvador in North America. The list below is ordered by name. The oldest site is Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site. On the list since 1993.

Name Since
Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site
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 condit...
1993