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10 unusual facts about Trujillo, Colón


1920 Louisiana hurricane

The small system gained intensity as it moved over Honduras, attaining tropical storm strength on September 19 prior to entering the Gulf of Honduras near Trujillo, Colón.

Afro-Central American

Some of these Africans also transported metals from mines in Guatemala to the Atlantic coast ports of Trujillo or Puerto de Caballos in modern day Honduras.

Garifuna soon defected to the Spanish and many settled around Trujillo, while others accepted land grants in the Miskito Kingdom.

Francisco de las Casas

Cortés ordered the founding of two cities, Nuestra Señora de la Navidad, near modern Puerto Cortés, and Trujillo, and named Francisco de las Casas Governor.

Héctor Medina

Héctor Orlando Medina Díaz (born January 27, 1975 in Trujillo) is a retired Honduran football goalkeeper.

José María Narváez

For three years he served aboard supply ships working the ports of Veracruz, New Orleans, Mantanzas, Campeche, Roatán, and Trujillo.

Nathaniel Butler

While on a privateering expedition in mid-1639 along the Spanish Main, he successfully captured a Spanish frigate at the harbour of Trujillo, and was later paid 16,000 pesos in ransom.

O. Henry

While holed up in a Trujillo hotel for several months, he wrote Cabbages and Kings, in which he coined the term "banana republic" to describe the country, a phrase subsequently used widely to describe a small, unstable tropical nation in Latin America with a narrowly focused, agrarian economy.

Paya language

At the time of initial Spanish contact, Pech was most likely spoken from Trujillo in the west to Cabo Gracias a Dios in the east, and as far south as the upper Patuca River (Holt 1999).

Unión Ájax

Unión Ájax is a Honduran soccer club based in Trujillo, Honduras.


1999 Atlantic hurricane season

Flooding also damage five bridges in Honduras, and the cities of Tocoa and Trujillo were isolated as the Aguán and Siline rivers overflowed their banks.

Adriana Cramer

Adriana Cramer (adopted Colón; formerly Balsom) is a fictional character on the American daytime drama One Life to Live, portrayed most notably by Melissa Fumero.

Alvaro Obertos de Valeto

Genoese family of Fíeseos who participated in the capture of Seville and Jerez in the service of Kingdom of Castile Fernando III and Alfonso X. His parents were Francisco de Morla and Francisca Martinez Obertos de Valeto, the daughter of Miguel Vargas Obertos de Valeto and Juana and Martinez Trujillo.

Amado García Guerrero

According to Bernard Diederich, the reason for Trujillo's refusal of García's marriage request was that his fiancé's brother had looked for asylum in a foreign embassy in the capital.

A member of the Military Aides-de-Camp of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, he was the person who informed the other conspirators that Trujillo would later leave that night for San Cristóbal.

Astete

He saw the founding of San Miguel de Piura, chose the location for Trujillo and was among the first residents at Huamanga (now known as Ayacucho).

Azuero spider monkey

The Azuero subspecies is one of three types of spider monkeys in Panama; Ateles geoffroyi panamensis with a range spanning from Costa Rica to Darién excluding the Azuero, Ateles geoffroyi fusciceps, with a range spanning Panamá and Colón provinces, and Ateles geoffroyi azuerensis, the Azuero spider monkey, whose range encompasses only the Azuero Peninsula.

Biofilo Panclasta

He soon left this group behind and wandered around Venezuela with other revolutionary groups that prowled through Trujillo, Portuguesa, Cojedes and Carabobo.

Brian Colon

Mr. Colón has also served on the State Bar of New Mexico Committee on Diversity since 2003, is a Board Member for the New Mexico College Success Network, has been a Board Member for the New Mexico State University Alumni Association, is active in Lobos for Legislation, and has twice been appointed by Governor Richardson as a Commissioner for the Judicial Selection Commission.

Concepción del Uruguay

The Uruguay Department produces 47% of the nation's poultry, and Concepción del Uruguay together with Gualeguay and Colón make up 85% of Argentine chicken exports.

Dougie Colon

Dougie David Colon (pronounced 'cologne') is a British puppet and television presenter best known as the presenter of the BBC One comedy series That Puppet Game Show in 2013.

Eddie Miró

Miró, Rafael Hernández Colón's spouse, and Raymond Dalmau became spokespersons for the testing and prevention of colon cancer in Puerto Rico once Miró announced his recovery.

Edmund Moeller

As the most famous of his works of sculpture is considered the Liberty Memorial opened in 1927 in the city of Trujillo, Peru's freedom monument in honor of the 100 of early proclaimed the independence of Trujillo.

Emmanuel Milingo

The others were Archbishop Peter Paul Brennan of the African Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the Americas, who according to one website was first consecrated a bishop on June 10, 1978, and subsequently reconsecrated in October 1979 and twice more in March 1987; Archbishop Patrick E. Trujillo of the Old Catholic Church in America and Archbishop Joseph J. Gouthro of Las Vegas, presiding bishop of the Catholic Apostolic Church International (CACI).

Foundation of Trujillo, Peru

November 1534 by the Spanish conquistador, Diego de Almagro, who founded the first Spanish settlement in Moche Valley, naming it Trujillo of New Castile after the home city of Francisco Pizarro Trujillo of Extremadura.

Franco Güity

Franco Danilo Güity Félix (born 5 December 1987 in Santa Rosa de Aguán, Colón, Honduras) is a Honduran footballer who currently plays as striker or winger for Liga Nacional de Honduras club Real España.

Hilder Colón

Hilder Jobany Colón Alvarez (born 6 April 1989 in Puerto Cortés) is a Honduran footballer who play as centre back for Real España in the Liga Nacional de Honduras.

Javier Antonio Colón

Colón dedicated the championship to the Mayor of Ponce Rafael Cordero Santiago, an avid fan of the team, who had died early that year.

Javier Colon

A year after winning The Voice and being signed by Universal, Colon announced his departure from the record label through BuddyTV on June 7, 2012 stating the lack of support for his latest album Come Through for You, and his first after win, as the reason.

Jeffrey Douma

Choirs under his direction have appeared in Leipzig's Neue Gewandhaus, Prague's Dvorak Hall, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Sydney Town Hall, Christchurch Cathedral, Avery Fisher Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and he has prepared choruses for performances under such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Sir David Willcocks, Nicholas McGegan, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir Neville Marriner, and Helmuth Rilling.

Jesús Colón

Colón began a Spanish language newspaper and in 1955, he wrote a regular column for the Daily Worker, a publication of the Communist Party in New York.

José Francisco Gana

Gana with his battalion captured the City of Huaras with the whole garrison, and, as a consequence, the provinces of Trujillo, Lambayeque, and Piura pronounced for the insurrection, leading to the whole northern portion of Peru being wrestled from the rule of the viceroy.

Juan Ricardo Roldán

Juan Ricardo Roldán Trujillo (born 31 March 1986 in Lagos de Moreno) is a Mexican football goalkeeper.

Karmei Tzur

This includes 13 families living in the adjacent Tzur Shalem outpost and eight immigrant families of Inca Jews from Trujillo, Peru, who have been housed there as part of an absorption program.

Katorz

During the recording of this album, guitarist Denis D'Amour (a.k.a. Piggy) died on August 25, 2005 due to colon cancer.

Kristina Ruisánchez

Kristina placed 2nd Runner-up at the Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2008 pageant where she competed as Miss Trujillo Alto.

La Quebrada

La Quebrada, Venezuela, also known as La Quebrada de San Roque, capital of Urdaneta Municipality, Trujillo.

La Voz Dominicana

The station was a radio broadcast only called La Voz del Yuna (1943) in Bonao until Jose Arismendy Trujillo Molina (Petan), brother of President Trujillo, acquired the station and moved it the capital city.

Larco Museum

He also purchased several small collections in Chicama Valley, Trujillo, Virú, and Chimbote.

Las Delicias, Trujillo

Las Delicias is a coastal town and resort located in Moche district, in Trujillo city, La Libertad Region, Peru.

Mansiche, La Libertad, Peru

Located in the northwest of Trujillo District was the outsides of the colonial city of Trujillo.

Manuel de Odriozola

However, upon the advance of the realists, he quickly migrated to Trujillo, where he continued to contribute to public life.

Matías Sarulyte

Matías Sarulyte (born March 13, 1989 in Colón, Argentina) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Olimpo de Bahía Blanca of the Primera División in Argentina.

Michel de Grammont

De Grammont landed his men in Spanish-held Venezuela and captured Maracaibo then followed the capture and plundering of several smaller towns as Gibraltar, penetrating as far inland as Trujillo.

Moche River

The Moche river goes through east to west the metropolitan area of Trujillo and its mouth is located in the Pacific Ocean in the limits of Moche and Victor Larco both towns of Trujillo city.

Olive leaf

Some recent research on the olive leaf has shown its antioxidants to be effective in treating some tumors and cancers such as liver, prostate, colon, skin and breast cancer, clinical studies lacking; Olive leaf is especially potent when used in combination with other antioxidants.

Oscar Milani

He has appeared at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig, the Semperoper, Dresden, the Liederhalle, Stuttgart, the Salle Cortot, Paris, the Konzertsaal of the Meistersinger Conservatorium and Meistersingerhalle the Martha Kirche in Nuremberg and at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

Priscila Navarro

As she learned quickly her father continued to support her talent and she enrolled in a summer course of piano at the National Cultural Institute in Trujillo, Peru, with Professor Silvia Rosales Tam.

Ramiro Carballo

Ramiro Ernesto Carballo Henríquez (born 16 March 1978 in Colón, La Libertad, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional football player, who currently plays for UES in the Salvadoran Premier League.

Rímac District

Downtown Rímac District has, like its southern counterpart, its eastern and western sides divided by Jirón Trujillo, which connects to Lima District's Jirón de la Unión through the Puente de Piedra, the oldest bridge in the whole city.

Ronda Campesina

Even though the internal conflict is now largely confined to the VRAE and has greatly diminished since 1992, the term Rondero is still used in everyday speech in Peru to signify a volunteer neighbourhood watchman either the countryside or in the sub-urbs of cities such as Lima or Trujillo.

Sir Alexander Fleming College

Sir Alexander Fleming College (commonly known as Fleming College or simply Fleming) is a British school in Trujillo, northern Perú.

Thebleedingalarm

The band rehearsed extensively with Colon, and in February 2007 began touring with fellow Immortal Records band A Change of Pace and Tooth and Nail Recording Artist The Classic Crime.

Tony Trujillo

Trujillo has a signature shoe line with Vans and the company produced two commercials, shot by Stacy Peralta, to advertise the shoe (Trujillo appeared in both).

TVMax

TVMax is a commercial privately owned TV station in Panama City, Panama that is available all over the country, except the province of Colón.

Víctor Hugo Carrillo

Víctor Hugo is a referee in Peruvian Primera División, Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana, 2010 FIFA World Cup, and several South American qualifiers, international friendly matches and in the Copa Perú, when he reffed a match between Los Caimanes against Universitario (Trujillo) in Chiclayo.