Concepción de Ataco

Concepción de Ataco on the map of El Salvador

Concepción de Ataco is a municipality in El Salvador in the department of Ahuachapán.

Name

The Nawat name Ataco or Ataku is interpreted as "place of the high-level sources ". Verbal elements are at ( Nahuatl atl ) "water", aku ( aco ) " collected, dominant " and the locative -ku ( -co ).

History

The old Ataco was founded by the Pipil. At about 1200, the area came under the rule of Cuzcatlán.

The former rule of Cuzcatlán was conquered by the Spanish in 1528 final. Throughout the colonial period Ataco was going to Provincia de Izalcos or Alcaldía Mayor de Sonsonate. According to the Archbishop Pedro Cortes y Larraz Ataco belonged in 1770 to the Parroquia Ahuachapán and its population consisted of 303 families with 784 Pipil people as a native language Nawat ( Pipil ), but in addition also spoke Spanish.

On June 12, 1824 Ataco first came to the Department of Sonsonate. By decree, the village was incorporated on February 8, 1855 in the department of Santa Ana. 1866 presented the municipality Ataco the application for separation from Santa Ana and Sonsonate department connection to, but with the creation of the department of Ahuachapán it was covered by the same on 26 February 1869. By 1858 it had 972 inhabitants, in 1890 the municipality had 2,860 inhabitants.

Attractions

The Church of the Immaculate Conception ( Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción de María ) has space for 500 worshipers.

In Atzumpa there are cold springs, the clear water is used as a bathhouse. The place is popular due to its cool climate and its landscape with subtropical forest.

Pipil culture

Still in the first half of the 20th century Ataco was a center of the Pipil culture. The Pipil language Nawat is virtually extinct due to the severe repression since the genocide of the Pipil 1932.

Political Structure

The eleven Cantone of Municipalities Concepción de Ataco called El Arco, El Limo, El Naranjito, El Tronconal, La Ceiba, La Joya de los Apantes, Los Tablones, San Jose, Shucutitán and Texusín Chirizo.