Panoramic View of the viewpoints located in hill Las Pavas.

Just 34 kilometres from San Salvador , is located one of the city most recognized for its cuisine and its religious fervour. This is the city of Cojutepeque located in the department of Cuzcatlán.

In the nearby town of Cojutepeque is the hill Las Pavas, a traditional place of Salvadorans, with more than 50 years of history, which developed various types of tourism such as religious, nostalgic, Gastronomy, ecological and agriculture.

Tourists enjoying the Salvadoran gastronomy during the Cookery Cojutepecana Festival

This place is located more than 1000 meters above sea level, allowing you to have a cool climate and beautiful views at Lake Ilopango, Jiboa Valley, Chinchontepec volcano, mountain ranges and the city of Cojutepeque. The hill Las Pavas is surrounded by lush vegetation that combined with the height of the zone lets you enjoy the inhabitants of the area, as well as tourists, a very cool climate and abundant mist, so Cojutepeque or Cojute , As is popularly known in this city, is also known as "The City of Mist "

In the Cookery Cojutepecana festival you can buy fruits and vegetables fresh.

Tourists enjoying the Salvadoran gastronomy during the Cookery Cojutepecana Festival

In the Cookery Cojutepecana festival you can buy fruits and vegetables fresh.

At the top of the hill Las Pavas takes place every day Sundays the Cookery Cojutepecana Festival. The festival is organized by women who make up the commonness group "Women Entrepreneurs in the Cookery Cojutepecana", which contains fourteen partner; this is a project with a gender focus. This group of women have joined together to provide an income for their families and bring all the flavour of the food Cojutepecana, their handicrafts and beverages, to tourists who visit the fresh and panoramic hill Las Pavas and the Grotto of Our Virgin of Fatima.

One of the attractions of hill Las Pavas is the pilgrimage to the Grotto of the Virgin of Fatima

This commonness group has nearly four years of working together, every Sunday during the year, including holidays, organizing their festival gastronomy achieving all this time in recognition for his work, taste and quality in their products. This dedication and effort in their work has been rewarded through a lot of satisfied customers who have visited this festival to the point of recommending to their friends and relatives. Most people who visit the Cookery Cojutepecana Festival come from the cities of San Salvador, Cojutepeque, Ilobasco, San Vicente, San Miguel, San Francisco Gotera, San Vicente, Usulután, Santa Ana, Chalatenango and some cities the United States and Canada as well as elsewhere, because of their good quality, clean and affordable prices.

One of the attractions of hill Las Pavas is the pilgrimage to the Grotto of the Virgin of Fatima.

During the festival can also be found for sale fresh fruit, as this depends on the season. In addition, you can taste and buy wines made with natural fruits.

But if you are a lover of handicrafts during the festival you can buy a variety of them, which are produced by hand and dyed with natural dyes such as indigo.

During the Cookery Cojutepecana festival can be found for sale a wide variety of handicrafts produced by hand and dyed with natural dyes.

In this cool place also can visit the Grotto of Virgin of Fatima, hiking between the forest, visit a small zoo, horseback riding perform as well as relax and enjoy the pleasant weather and great panoramic views that are located from the viewpoints.

If you want more information on the gastronomic or other details of how to support this group commonness of women, what can be done to the phones (503) 2323-7833 and (503) 7518-5534

Special thanks:

•  During the Cookery Cojutepecana festival can be found for sale a wide variety of handicrafts produced by hand and dyed with natural dyes.

Commonness group "Women Entrepreneurs in the Cookery Cojutepecana"

•  Licentiate Raul Lizama specialist in developing tourism projects Telephone: 503+2226-0482 and 503+7883-8900