Saladin armoured cars could be seen in the streets of the Honduran Capital Tegucigalpa in the 2009 coup against President Manuel Zelaya.

The coat-of-arms and department flag of Francisco Morazán Department are the same as its capital, Tegucigalpa.

This historic place had as its main purpose to protect against the pirates ; the silver cargos originating from the mines of San Miguel of Tegucigalpa that often left from Omoa to Spain.

When the US Drug Enforcement Administration set up its first office in Tegucigalpa in 1981, its resident agent " rapidly came to the accurate conclusion that the entire Honduran government was deeply involved in the drug trade.

When Honduras obtained its independence in 1821, Trujillo lost its status of capital city permanently first to Comayagua, which lost it to Tegucigalpa in 1880.

Easily accessible by paved road, 210 km north-east of Tegucigalpa, Catacamas has historically been characterized by their hospitality, resilience and progressive spirit of its people and its nature, suitable for agricultural and forest production.

The local military commander and governor of Tegucigalpa, General Rafael López Gutiérrez, took the lead in organizing PLH opposition to Bertrand.

Numerous opposition leaders had been imprisoned, and some had reportedly been chained and put to work in the streets of Tegucigalpa.

Numerous opposition leaders had been imprisoned, and some had reportedly been chained and put to work in the streets of Tegucigalpa.

Toncontín has, however, been significantly improved by the work of Airport Corporation of Tegucigalpa ( ACT ) and InterAirports, a company contracted by the Honduran government to administer the country's four major airports.

As of January 2005 Lacsa operated services to the following international scheduled destinations: Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Guatemala City, Guayaquil, Havana, Lima, Los Angeles, Managua, Medellin, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Panama City, Quito, Santo Domingo, San Salvador, San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, Toronto.

In 1850, Honduras attempted to build, with foreign assistance, an Inter-Oceanic Railroad from Trujillo to Tegucigalpa and then on to the Pacific Coast.

Total yearly amounts depend on surrounding topography ; Tegucigalpa, in a sheltered valley, averages only of precipitation.

There was fighting between fans at the first game in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa on 8 June 1969, which Honduras won 1 – 0.

Comayagua () is a city in Honduras, some 50 miles ( 80 km ) northwest of Tegucigalpa on the highway to San Pedro Sula at an elevation of 1, 949 feet ( 594 m ) above sea level.

José Francisco Morazán Quezada was born on October 3, 1792, in Tegucigalpa ( then in the Captaincy General of Guatemala, now the capital of Honduras ) during the waning years of Spanish colonial rule to Eusebio Morazán Alemán and Guadalupe Quezada Borjas, both members of an upper-class Creole family dedicated to trade and agriculture.

Upon their return from Tegucigalpa, his men clashed with Milla's forces on the ranch ' La Maradiaga '.

With the Campeonato de Naciones doubling as the final World Cup qualifying tournament, the next two editions were held in Ciudad de México and Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1977 and 1981, respectively, the host country came away as champion and grabbed the spots on offers each time.

* October 21 – TAN-SAHSA Flight 414, a Boeing 727-200, crashes into a hill near Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa Honduras, while on approach to a landing there, killing 127 of the 146 people on board and injuring all 19 survivors.

Two years before his assassination by the Sandinistas in Managua, contra military commander Enrique Bermúdez, during a meeting in Tegucigalpa, asked Johns to author his autobiographical essay, " The Contras ' Valley Forge ," which is based on extensive discussions between the two and received substantial global media coverage in The New York Times, The Washington Post and elsewhere.

The PARLACEN as political body in the region is part of the Central American Integration System SICA, established by the Protocol of Tegucigalpa to the Charter of the Organization of American States ( ODECA ) signed on 13 December 1991.

This was admitted into the Charta of the Organisation of the Central American States ( ODECA ) by the Protocol of Tegucigalpa which was signed on 13 December 1999.

In September 1896, he went to Tegucigalpa because of a contract on 27 June 1896 to be a Music teacher, and a Band teacher.

Colindres and an 8 year old boy had been sent by Colindres's mother to clear some corn fields on Piligüin mountain, northeast of Tegucigalpa.

Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero was born on 14 November 1943 in Tegucigalpa in Honduras, and was the President of Honduras from 27 January 1990 to 27 January 1994, representing the National Party of Honduras ( PNH ).

Born in Tegucigalpa Honduras, Díaz assumed presidential authority on 16 November 1954 while President Juan Manuel Gálvez was out of the country seeking medical attention.

General José Santos Guardiola Bustillo ( 1 November 1816 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras – 11 January 1862 in Comayagua, Honduras ) was a two term President of Honduras from February 17th 1856 to February 7th 1860 and from February 7th 1860 to his death on January 11th 1862, when he became the only President of Honduras to be assassinated while in office in a crime committed by his personal guard.

Dr. Marco Aurelio Soto was born on November 13, 1846 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

José Trinidad Cabañas was born to José María Cabañas Rivera and Juana Fiallos in Tegucigalpa and was baptized on the day of his birth. in 1805

At 13 November of this year, he defeated the forces of General Francisco Zelaya y Ayes on the battle in El Sitio of La Soledad, on outskirts of Tegucigalpa, and he was later defeated by the same General on 31 January 1840 in Los Llanos, in Potrero.

In order to restore the Federation, Cabañas was appointed as Vice-Chief of State by the Constituent Assembly of Central America, met in Tegucigalpa on 13 October 1852.

He died on 24 August 1966 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

It is located about 22 km northwest of the capital city, Tegucigalpa in the valley of the same name, between the mountains of Los Lagos, El Carrizal, Palo Hueco and Chinacla.

In early 1569, new silver discoveries briefly revived the economy, which led to the founding of Tegucigalpa, which soon began to rival Comayagua as the most important city of the province.

Comayagua was the capital of Honduras until 1880, when it was transferred to Tegucigalpa.

Through a peace settlement arranged by the US charge'd ' affaires in Tegucigalpa, Bonilla stepped down and the war with Nicaragua came to an end.

The settlement also provided for the installation of a compromise regime headed by General Miguel R. Davila in Tegucigalpa.

One force of marines and sailors was even dispatched inland to Tegucigalpa to provide additional protection for the United States legation.

In May 1944, a group of women began demonstrating outside of the Presidential Palace in Tegucigalpa, demanding the release of political prisoners.

The military had confiscated the ballots and polls in a military base in Tegucigalpa.

Villages and towns, including the capital, Tegucigalpa, are tucked in the larger valleys.

Tegucigalpa, in a sheltered valley and at an elevation of, has a pleasant climate, with an average high temperature ranging from in April, the warmest month, to in January, the coolest.

The Choluteca River runs south from Tegucigalpa though Choluteca and out at the Gulf of Fonseca.

In 1982 in Honduras, a group of nine Salvadorans and Nicaraguans destroyed a main electrical power station, leaving Tegucigalpa, the capital city, for three days without power.

The departmental capital of Nueva Ocotepeque fell shortly after along with eight other cities, placing the Salvadoran army within striking distance of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa.

The Honduran government called the OAS attention, fearing that the nearing Salvadoran Army would invade the capital Tegucigalpa, the OAS met in an urgent session and called for an immediate cease-fire and a withdrawal of El Salvador's forces from Honduras.

After Honduras became an independent republic, the capital alternated between Comayagua and Tegucigalpa ( Comayagua being preferred by Conservative administrations, and Tegucigalpa by Liberal ones ) before being permanently established at Tegucigalpa in 1880.

On 1813 the family moved back to Tegucigalpa.