- This is certainly an appropriate name, as Tegucigalpa and environs were the most important silver mining center in Central America.
- Situated 1000m above sea level, deep in a mountain valley, the Honduran capital of TEGUCIGALPA is not, at least on first impression, the most welcoming city.
- Tegucigalpa, founded in 1578 on the slopes of Mount Picacho as a gold- and silver-mining centre, alternated with Comayagua
- The Choluteca River separates Tegucigalpa with its nearby city Comayaguela, which in some way is legally considered as the other capital.
- With a dark history of corruption and poverty, Tegucigalpa is known for being one of Central America’s most dangerous cities.
- Tegucigalpa is currently the city of greatest buoyancy in the country, given that it is the political and administrative center.
- Nestled among the Central American Cordillero in Honduras’ southern-central highland region, Tegucigalpa’s mountainous terrain is evoked in the scale of the...
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- The defining event in recent Honduran history, and that of Tegucigalpa also, is Hurricane Mitch, which devastated the country in 1998.
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