Chwa Nim Abaj

Chwa Nim Abaj, also known as Mixco Viejo seems to have been built at the beginning of the XII century on the top of a hill surrounded by ravines.
It is estimated that came to have a population of 10,000 inhabitants at the beginning of the SIXTEENTH century. It was conquered and destroyed by the troops of Pedro de Alvarado in 1525, after a siege of more than three months. The battle to conquer it was a pretty bloody and the spaniards suffered several casualties during the time that it lasted.
Mixco Viejo was a fortress very difficult to penetrate as it is surrounded by cliffs, it seems the condemnation of the city was given by a tunnel secret was discovered. The Spanish chronicles do not tend to possess a number of defeats, so that a great part of the history of this siege it was lost in time.