A mid-eighteenth century, in the parish of Conchagua, there was the San Alejo de Pedregal, rocky site known as Queiquín native Lenca.

Shortly after a brawl that took place in 1771 among such enemies, the Supreme Head of the Province of San Miguel ordered to organize a village in the land donated by the owners of the property.

These facts suggest that both were the first subjects to suffer persecution in the Central American territory by the colonial power.

Amid the events Zaldivar tried to flee to Honduras, but was imprisoned in San Miguel where he died.

Rafael Zaldivar, president of El Salvador in the second half of the nineteenth century, was born in this place.