257. 🇭🇳 Drive from Choluteca to Tegucigalpa - Honduras

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegucig... Tegucigalpa (from Nahuatl: Tekohtsinkalpan 'In the house of the great lord' ), officially Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District and abbreviated as Tegucigalpa, MDC, note 1 is the capital and seat of government of the Republic of Honduras, along with its city twin Comayagüela, according to articles 8 and 295 of the current Constitution of Honduras. 3 ​4 ​Tegucigalpa is the most populated city in Central America with 1,326,590 inhabitants. 5 Although the small town on the banks of the Choluteca River basin (today the Historic Center) was known as Taguzgalpa since 1536 , it was with the arrival of the Spanish to the region in search of minerals that it was recognized. September 29, 1578 as the day that marks its foundation under the name of Real de Minas de San Miguel de Tegucigalpa . Three centuries later, on October 30, 1880, it became the capital of the country, during the presidency of Marco Aurelio Soto . 6 During the short existence of the Political Constitution of the Federal Republic of Central America , between 1824 and 1839, Tegucigalpa was declared a federal district and capital of those then united into a single nation: the states of El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras. 7 After this failed attempt to preserve a Central American republic, Honduras returned to being an individual and independent country and on January 30, 1937, Article 179 of the Constitution of Honduras of 1936 was reformed under Decree No. 53 and Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela are established as the Central District . On December 9 of the same year it was ratified under Decree No. 2. 8 The Central District is located in the south-central mountainous region of Honduras in the department of Francisco Morazán , of which it is also the departmental capital. 9​ The metropolitan area of ​​Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela is located in a valley, surrounded by mountains and both, being twin cities , are geologically separated by the Choluteca River basin that runs through them. 10​ The Central District is the largest and most populated municipality in Francisco Morazán and the fourteenth largest in Honduras. 11 Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela, together, are the largest and most populated city in Honduras. The capital is the political and administrative center of the country where 23 embassies and 16 consulates are located, diplomatically and consularly representing 39 countries around the world. 12 ​13​ It is the headquarters of most public agencies and state companies, including ENEE and Hondutel , the national energy and telecommunications companies, respectively. 14​ It is also the home of the national soccer team and the main campus and rectory of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), the highest educational institution in the country. The international airport, Toncontín , has acquired worldwide fame and infamy for its extremely short runway for an international-class airport, which forces aviators to undertake somewhat irregular maneuvers during takeoff and landing to avoid the surrounding mountains. 15 ​16 The Municipal Mayor's Office of the Central District (AMDC) is the government authority of the city and municipality, 17 headed by a mayor and 10 councilors who form the Municipal Corporation, the executive-legislative body of the municipality. 18​ Being the departmental capital, it is the seat of the departmental political governor of Francisco Morazán. For 2013, the Mayor's Office approved a budget of more than three billion lempiras ( US$ 153.5 million), 19​ and accumulated a debt of over one billion lempiras (US$50 million), 20​ in part to finance the projects. of infrastructure that the present municipal administration is undertaking. The capital's infrastructure has not kept pace with its demographic explosion. 21 ​22​ The lack of adequate planning, 23​ dense and disorderly urbanization, combined with socioeconomic phenomena such as poverty and crime , are scourges of daily life. 24 ​25​ The main traffic routes are the scene of traffic jams since the present road network cannot cope with the more than 400 thousand vehicles that circulate through them daily. 26 Both the national and municipal governments have developed projects to increase infrastructure and alleviate poverty in the city. 27 ​28 #ecuador #dashcam #ecuador #guayaquil #Cuenca #dashcam #dashcamvideos #dashcamtravel #dashcameras #colombia #ecuador #walking #walk #walkingtour #french #honduras #guyana #frenchguiana #brazil #argentina #chile #dashcam #peru #bolivia #colombia #costaRica #2024 #2023 #2025