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COMAYAGUA

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 750 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COMAYAGUA , the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of the department of Comayagua in central Honduras, on the right bank of the river Ulua, and on the interoceanic railway from Puerto

Cortes

CORTES
CORTES, HERNAN

to Fonseca Bay. Pop.., (1900) about 8000. Comayagua occupies part of a fertile valley, enclosed by mountain ranges. Under Spanish

rule

RULE

it was a city of considerable size and beauty, and in 1827 its in-habitants numbered more than 18,000. A fine cathedral, dating from 1715, is the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

monument

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

of its former prosperity, for most of the handsome public buildings erected in the colonial period have fallen into disrepair. The present city chiefly consists of low

adobe

ADOBE (pronounced a-db-be; also corrupted to dobie; from the Span. adobar, to plaster, traceable through Arabic to an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning " brick ")

houses and cane huts, tenanted by Indians. The university founded in 1678 has ceased to exist, but there is a school of jurisprudence. In the neighbourhood are many ancient Indian ruins (see CENTRAL, AMERICA: Archaeology).
Founded in 1540 by Alonzo Caceres, who had been instructed
by the Spanish government to find a site for a city midway between the two oceans, Valladolid la Nueva, as the town was first named, soon became the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of Honduras.' It received the privileges of a city in 1557, and was made an episcopal see in 1561. Its decline

dates

DATES

from 1827, when it was burned by revolutionaries; and in 1854 its population had dwindled to 2000. It afterwards suffered through war and rebellion, notably in 1872 and 1873, when it was besieged by the Guatemalans. In 188o

Tegucigalpa

TEGUCIGALPA

(q.v.), a city 37 M.

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

, superseded it as the capital of Honduras.

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