Ort in Honduras - San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, Ciudad de Comayagua, Liste Der Stdte in Honduras, Choloma, Tela, Puerto Corts, Yuscarn (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, Ciudad de Comayagua, Liste Der Stdte in Honduras, Choloma, Tela, Puerto Corts, Yuscarn, La Ceiba, Trujillo, Fortaleza de San Fernando Omoa, San Francisco de Coray, Santa Rosa de Copn, San Juan de Flores, Beln Gualcho, Sonaguera. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Tegucigalpa (Spanish pronunciation: ) is the capital city of Honduras and is also the country's largest city. Tegucigalpa is also the capital of Honduras's Francisco Morazn department. Tegucigalpa was founded by Spanish settlers as Real Villa de San Miguel de Heredia de Tegucigalpa on September 29, 1578 on the site of an existing native settlement. Before and after independence, the city was a mining center for silver and gold. The capital of the independent Republic of Honduras switched back and forth between Tegucigalpa and Comayagua until it was permanently settled in Tegucigalpa in 1880. A popular myth claims that the society of Comayagua, the long-time colonial capital of Honduras, publicly disliked the wife of President Marco Aurelio Soto, who took revenge by moving the capital to Tegucigalpa. A more likely theory is that the change took place because President Soto was an important partner of the Rosario Mining Company, an American silver mining company, whose operations were based in San Juancito, close to Tegucigalpa, and he needed to be close to his personal interests. Tegucigalpa remained relatively small and provincial until the 1970s, when immigration from the rural areas began in earnest. During the 1980s, several avenues, traffic overpasses, and large buildings were erected, a relative novelty to a city characterized until then by two-story buildings. Tegucigalpa continues to sprawl far beyond its former colonial core, towards the east, south and west, creating a large but disorganized metropolis. The city's main buildings include the former Presidential Palace, which is now a national museum, a 20th-ce...http://booksllc.net/?l=de