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5 unusual facts about lempira


Lempira

Puerto Lempira, the capital of the Honduran department of Gracias a Dios

Organization for Youth Empowerment

The average monthly family income of many grant recipients is between 2,000 and 3,000 Lempiras (approximately 100-160 dollars) for families of seven or more.

San Manuel Colohete

The former inhabitants were the warriors of the brave Lempira chief.

San Manuel Colohete is a municipality in the Honduran department of Lempira, located approximately twenty miles southwest of the departmental capital of Gracias.

In the census of 1887 it was a settlement of a village of "Concepcion Colohete" in Gracias municipality as it was now back then.


Atlético Pinares

In Juli 2012 the Honduran football arbitration court (Tribunal de Arbitraje de Fútbol) has set due the accumulated debts of second division Hispano of Comayagua, which had reached almost one million lempiras (at the time 40,000 EUR / 31,500 GBP / US$51,000) to be paid within five days.

Comayagua F.C.

In Julu 2012 the Honduran football arbitration court (Tribunal de Arbitraje de Fútbol) has set due the accumulated debts of the club, which have reached almost one million lempiras (at the time 40,000 EUR / 31,500 GBP / 51,000 USD) to be paid within five days.

Honduran lempira

The lempira was named after the 16th-century cacique Lempira, a ruler of the indigenous Lenca people, who is renowned in Honduran folklore for leading the (ultimately unsuccessful) local native resistance against the Spanish conquistador forces.

José Francisco Ramírez

He was nicknamed Pancho Ra and was the biggest transfer in the Honduran league, at that time, when Marathón acquired him from Platense in 2006 for 1,6 million lempiras.

Tostones

In Honduras, the term tostón may also refer to the fifty-cent coin of the local currency, the lempira.


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