Jutiapa is a district in the Cabañas department of El Salvador. Its population was over 7000 inhabitants for the year 2015. Jutiapa is a pre-Columbian settlement whose original name was Tepeahua. In 1740 there were about 25 inhabitants, and in 1770, as part of the parish of Suchitoto according to Pedro Cortés y Larraz, there were 189.