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The Best Attractions In El Paraiso Department

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El Paraíso is one of the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided. The territory of El Paraíso was initially part of the departments of Tegucigalpa and Olancho after Central America gained its independence in 1825. The department of El Paraíso was created with municipalities taken from the departments of Tegucigalpa and Olancho on 28 May 1869 by congressional decree in the third political division of Honduras, during the presidential term of José María Medina. Initially El Paraíso included the jurisdictions of Danlí, Yuscarán and Texiguat, along with the town of Guinope. On December 28, 1878, Texiguat was moved to the department of Tegucig...
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  • 2. Copan Ruinas Copan Ruinas
    Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization located in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala. It was the capital city of a major Classic period kingdom from the 5th to 9th centuries AD. The city was located in the extreme southeast of the Mesoamerican cultural region, on the frontier with the Isthmo-Colombian cultural region, and was almost surrounded by non-Maya peoples.Copán was occupied for more than two thousand years, from the Early Preclassic period to the Postclassic. The city developed a distinctive sculptural style within the tradition of the lowland Maya, perhaps to emphasize the Maya ethnicity of the city's rulers.The city has a historical record that spans the greater part of the Classic period and has been reconstructe...
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  • 3. West Bay Beach West Bay
    West Bay is a bay in Honduras. It is located in Roatan, the biggest of the Bay Islands of Honduras.
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