Ahuachapán is a department of El Salvador located in the west of the country. The capital is Ahuachapán.
In the South it has the Apenca-Ilamatepec Range and the Cerro Grande de Apaneca (Apaneca Grand Hill). Its extension is 1,240 km² and has more than 360,000 people living in the department.
Ahuachapán city. The municipality including the city covers an area of 244.84 km² and as of 2007 has a population of 110,511 people.
Situated near the Guatemalan border, it is the westernmost city in the country and is the center of an agricultural region producing primarily coffee.
Ahuachapán is the site of a geothermal power plant and a hydroelectric station.
The local geothermal activity produces many steam vents, visible throughout the surrounding mountains.
Among other things, Ahuachapan is about an hour's drive from the national wildlife park El Imposible
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