Acajutla is a seaport and municipality in Sonsonate Department, El Salvador. The town is located at (13°35′24″N89°50′01″W) on the Pacific Coast of Central America and is El Salvador's principal seaport from which a large portion of the nation's exports of coffee, sugar, and Balsam of Peru are shipped. As a municipality, Acajutla is one of seventeen such districts in Sonsonate.