Comayagua

Comayagua is a town in Honduras, some 80 km northwest of Tegucigalpa on the highway to San Pedro Sula at 14.46?N, 87.65?W at an elevation of 594 meters above sea level. In 2003 the estimated population was 74,000 people. It is the capital of Honduras's Comayagua department.

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Comayagua was founded with the name Santa Mar?a de la Nueva Valladolid by Conquistador Alonso de C?ceres under orders from Francisco de Montejo, Governor of Yucat?n on December 8, 1537. From 1540 on Comayagua was the capital of the Honduras district of New Spain. After independence from Spain it was the capital of the state of Honduras in the United States of Central America. After Honduras became an independent republic, the capital alternated between Comayagua and Tegucigalpa (Comayagua being preferred by Conservative administrations, and Tegucigalpa by Liberal ones) before being permanently established at Tegucigalpa in 1880.

Honduras: The Republic of Honduras is an independent country in western Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the south west El Salvador, to the south east by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean, to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea. Belize (formerly "British Ho...

Tegucigalpa: Tegucigalpa, population 897,000 (1997), is the capital of Honduras and the republic's largest city. The city is located in a valley of the same name at , and an elevation of 3,250 feet. The name is derived from the amerindian "Tekut Xiuatl Pan" meaning 'Silver Mountain'. Tegucigalpa is also the capi...

San Pedro Sula: San Pedro Sula is a city in the nation of Honduras. It is in the northwest of the country in the Sula Valley, some 60 km south of Puerto Cort?s on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of about 486,000 people (2002 estimate), it is the second largest city in the country behind the Honduran capital Te...