Honda, Tolima
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| Nickname: ""The Bridge City"" | |||
| Departamento | Tolima | ||
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| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Luis Hernán Naranjo Saavedra | ||
| Area | |||
| - City | 309 km² (119.3 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 229 m (751.3 ft) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| - City | 45,000 | ||
| - Density | 323.7/km² (838.4/sq mi) | ||
Honda is a municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia. The population of the municipality was 27,938 as of the 1993 census. Along with Líbano, Honda is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Líbano-Honda.
The principal industries of Honda are tourism, fishing, and cattle-ranching.
Honda is called "the City of Bridges" with more than 25 of them on the rivers Magdalena, Gualí, Guarinó, and Quebrada Seca. It is also called the "City of Peace" as it escaped most of the violence of the 1950s.
[edit] History
Honda was founded on 24 August 1539 by Francisco Nuñez Pedroso, who 9 years earlier founded the neighboring town of Mariquita. The "golden age" of the city was between 1850 and 1910; thanks to steam navigation on the Magdalena. The city was the main river port of the country. All the foreign articles that arrived at Bogotá came through Honda.
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