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Extract from the Ahuachapn Travel Guides:
From Apaneca the road winds its way down to the city of
AHUACHAPN
. This area, and the lands further north, are some of the oldest inhabited regions of what is today El Salvador, due in large part to the extremely fertile soil. Artefacts found in the region date back to 1200 BC and the first early Maya. Ahuachapn is also one of the oldest Spanish settlements in the country, made a city in 1862, and has generally been a place of quiet bourgeois comfort; two attacks by Guatemalan troops - in 1863 and 1864 - were both firmly rebutted. The early twentieth-century British visitor Percy Martin noted: "The people as a whole seemed to me...
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