• spoken in Honduras, it was also spoken in El Salvador close to the Honduran border. It is distantly related to Salvadoran Lenca. Honduran Lenca can be divided...
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    The Lenca, also known as Lepa Wiran, meaning “Jaguar People” or “People of The Jaguar” are an Indigenous people from present day southwest Honduras and...
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    reports, the Lenca surrendered. This is essentially the official version that is taught to Honduran children in school. In the 1980s, the Honduran historian...
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  • and Honduras. But by the beginning of the 20th century, only two languages of the family survived, Salvadoran Lenca or Potón and Honduran Lenca, which...
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    one of the Honduran heroes, was part of the Lencas tribe. His death at the hands of Rodrigo Ruiz, meant the final conquest of Honduran territory by...
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    towns where the Lencas lived in present-day El Salvador. According to Adolfo Costenla Umaña, the Salvadoran Lenca and the Honduran Lenca would have separated...
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  • regardless of ethnicity. Honduran Spanish is considered a variety of Central American Spanish. The language of the Honduran Lencas is considered an extinct...
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  • Intibucá, Honduras. La Esperanza is famous for having the coolest climate in Honduras. It is considered the heart of the Ruta Lenca (Lenca Trail), a region...
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    the Honduran Army, Honduran Navy and Honduran Air Force. In 2017, Honduras signed the UN treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Honduras is divided...
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  • after defeating C.D. Lenca in the final series and obtained promotion to the 1971–72 Honduran Liga Nacional. Lenca v Troya Troya v Lenca Troya won 6–5 on...
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    16th century. The western-central part of Honduras was inhabited by the Lencas, the central north coast by the Tol, the area east and west of Trujillo...
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  • Ballet Folklórico de Honduras Oro Lenca is a Honduran folkloric ballet troupe in La Esperanza. It was founded in 2008 and presents dances and costumes...
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    Rights Group International, the indigenous tribes that live in Honduras include the Lenca (453,672), Miskito (80,007), Garifuna (43,111), Maya Ch'orti (33...
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  • Lenca language, indigenous language(s) of the Lenca C.D. Lenca, a Honduran soccer player Cephalotes lenca, a species of arboreal ant of the genus Cephalotes...
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    Berta Cáceres (category Lenca people)
    [ˈbeɾtajsaˈβel ˈkaseɾes ˈfloɾes]; 4 March 1971 – 3 March 2016) was a Honduran (Lenca) environmental activist, indigenous leader, co-founder and coordinator...
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    the conquest, "Honduras was inhabited by an aboriginal population descended from different ethnic groups." 1 Among these are: Los Lencas, Payas, Chorotegas...
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    shade of blue for the Honduran flag "until its colors are defined and regulated by legislative decree". On 4 August 2023, the Honduran Armed Forces announced...
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    and innovator in Honduran folk dance Johann Seren Castillo — Director of Ballet Folklórico de Honduras Oro Lenca Culture of Honduras Lencan Mythology...
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    meat) and Honduran spicy sausages (chorizo). A good breakfast will be accompanied with hot, dark—in this case Honduran-grown—coffee. Honduran coffee is...
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    the Amerindian population in Honduras included 381,495 people (6.3% of the total population). With the exception of the Lenca and the Ch'orti' they still...
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    was in decline and had lost its political-military power in Honduras, therefore the Lenca kingdoms maintained contact with some cultures until the arrival...
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    currency of Honduras. It is subdivided into 100 centavos. The lempira was named after the 16th-century cacique Lempira, a ruler of the indigenous Lenca people...
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    the Intermediate Area to the southeast. Indigenous groups included Maya, Lenca, Pech, Miskitu, Mayangna (Sumu), Jicaque, Pipil and Chorotega. Two indigenous...
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    ninth century CE, were the Maya. The western-central part of Honduras was inhabited by the Lenca while other indigenous peoples settled in the northeast and...
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  • Lenca in the final series and obtained promotion to the 1976–77 Honduran Liga Nacional. Lenca v Campamento Campamento v Lenca Campamento 5–5 Lenca on...
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  • among other things. The Honduran government signed a 48-point agreement in response to the protests. In October 1997, some 150 Lenca protesters led by COPINH...
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  • Public holidays in Honduras are centered on Christianity and the commemoration of events in Honduran history. Each celebration is very important to many...
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    Museum of Comayagua (category Archaeology of Honduras)
    archaeological museum located in the city of Comayagua, Honduras, founded on June 6, 1940 and managed by the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History. The museum...
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    Lencan mythology (category History of Honduras)
    Lenca mythology is the set of religious and mythological beliefs of the Lenca people from Honduras and El Salvador, before and after the conquest of America...
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    Bertha Zúñiga (category Lenca people)
    Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres (born 24 September 1990) is a Honduran social activist of Lenca descent. She is the daughter of social leader Berta Cáceres, murdered...
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