Queiquin

Queiquin, later San Alejo, lies in the low country of eastern El Salvador near the Gulf of Fonseca. Its old name has been interpreted as a stony place. Lenca inhabitants knew the rocky site by this name, and by the middle of the eighteenth century an estate called San Alejo de Pedregal stood in the parish of Conchagua. The surrounding plain leads toward the inlets and mangroves of the gulf.

The later city of San Miguel lies here.