Minas de Oro

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Minas de Oro

Location Information
Location:	150 km Northwest of Tegucigalpa
Population:	4,300 (6,500+ in the surrounding villages)
Area:	397.0 km²
Patron Saint day:	13 June (Saint Antonio)
Villages:	13
Small villages:	83

Minas de Oro is a municipality in the Honduran department of Comayagua.

Contents 1 General information 1.1 Name origin 1.2 Location 1.3 Surroundings 1.4 Limits 2 Historical information 3 Education 3.1 City of Education 3.2 The Malcotal 3.3 Evangelical Boarding School 3.4 Minas de Oro Regional Institute 4 List of villages 5 List of caserios 6 Celebrities from Minas de Oro 6.1 Neida Sandoval 6.2 Vicente Cáceres 6.3 Ramón Carías Donaire 6.4 José María Calix 7 Sites of interest 7.1 Cerro Pelon 7.2 Evangelical Institute Installations 7.3 El Malcotal Installations 7.4 El Manantial Ecocenter 7.5 Cerro Los Tornillos 7.6 Some Closed Mines 8 External links 8.1 Sites in Spanish

[edit] General information

[edit] Name origin

During one of his visits to this place, Juan Lindo discovered a gold mine. For that reason it has continued to be called "Minas de Oro" (Gold Mines).

[edit] Location

Minas de Oro is located to the northeast of Comayagua, 150 km to the northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.

[edit] Surroundings

It is surround by the mountains named Grande, El Cobre and El Peñón.

[edit] Limits

To the north, the district of Victoria; to the south, the San Luis and Esquías districts; to the east, the San Jose del Potero district and to the west, the La Libertad district.

[edit] Historical information

Minas de Oro was founded as a consequence of the gold rushes that were common in the region, when workers and neightbours settled in the area, creating in 1744 the first municipality, with Manuel Valle as Mayor.

During Dr. Policarpo Bonillas's administration, citizenship began negotiating with the Círculo de Cabañas, an association that grouped the municipalities of Minas de Oro, Esquías and San José del Potrero. These negotiations led to the transfer of the head of such association to Minas de Oro in 1893, during general Domingo Vazquez's administration.

In order to justify the transfer, the citizenship argued that the powerful increment of the footwear industry, the commercial relationship between Minas de Oro, Tegucigalpa and the northern coast, and the growing cafe crops in the region were becoming Minas de Oro's main patrimonies, which at least in the first case it held true in the subsequent years.

Minas de Oro was founded in 1820 and was given the level of municipality in the year 1844.

[edit] Education

[edit] City of Education

In the 1990s, Minas de Oro was called a "city of education" in Honduras because it was the only municipality where all the towns had access to a primary education.

[edit] The Malcotal

• [1]Read the story

Minas de Oro counted on the famous "Malcotal School", oriented to the agroforestal formation lead by a North American. The only thing left of this institution is a house turned center of tourist retirements in the highway that leads to Mines of San Antonio.

[edit] Evangelical Boarding School

Minas de Oro were counted by the decade from the 1960s to 1990s in the Famous Evangelical Institute that has a boarding school where students from all of the republic of Honduras went. Its musical, English formation and Biblical education was recognized. At beginning 1960s, it closed because of stoked heat from the insecurity in the access routes, stop cost of fuels, local competition, and complexity in the administrative handling of this type of institution.

[edit] Minas de Oro Regional Institute

[edit] List of villages

• 031101 Minas de Oro
• 031102 Agua Blanca
• 031103 El Socorro
• 031104 El Zompopero
• 031105 La Hoya de la Puerta
• 031106 Las Huertas
• 031107 Minas de San Antonio
• 031108 Montecitos
• 031109 Pimientilla
• 031110 San Isidro del Mal Paso
• 031111 Santa Cruz

[edit] List of caserios

• Quebrachal
• La Piedra
• La Joya de Mulas
• El Salitre
• La Canada
• Los Pozos
• Palo de Agua
• Mal Paso
• Las Lomitas
• Las Majadas
• El Filo
• El Carrizalito
• La Laguna
• La Florida
• La Rosita
• Hoya del Blanco
• Lagunitas
• Joya del Blanco
• Hacienda Vallecillos
• San Jose del Coyolar
• Casitas
• El Carao
• El Chorro
• El Barro
• El Paraiso
• Italia
• Majada
• El Cacao
• Platanares
• Majada de Trino
• Maguelito
• La Laguna
• Canquigue
• Potrerillos
• La Tejera
• Cofradia
• La Ceiba
• Jupuare
• El Salitre
• Ojo de Agua o Pozo Zarco
• El Palote
• Las Cruces
• Cristales
• Mal Paso
• Terrero Colorado
• Cerro El Sombrero
• Pedernales
• El Tablon
• Las Ventanas
• El Zapote
• Pie de La Cuesta
• El Bijao
• El Pataste
• Los Chaguites
• El Higuerito
• Piedra Ancha
• Corralitos
• Las Pinuelas
• El Caliche
• Nicaraguita
• Montanuela
• La Granadilla
• Iran
• El Peñon
• El Socorro
• Nueva York
• La Marihuana
• Rio Colorado
• Patastillo
• La Chacara
• El Agua Caliente
• El Guarumal
• Tontales
• Casas Viejas
• La Peña
• Hacienda El Roble
• El Trozo
• Lava Oro
• La Pimienta
• Jicarito
• Ojo de Agua

[edit] Celebrities from Minas de Oro

[edit] Neida Sandoval

A host of the morning show "Despierta America" (Morning Show) on the Spanish language network Univision.

She won two Emmy awards in 1998 after reporting about the damage of Hurricane Mitch in her native country Honduras and the rest of Central America countries.

In 2003 she received a special condecoration from Honduras National Congress.

[edit] Vicente Cáceres

A well known teacher in one of the largest public schools of Honduras.

[edit] Ramón Carías Donaire

Another known teacher, he was Principal of the Villa Ahumada Normal School, the 90's promotion was named in his name.

[edit] José María Calix

Periodista de reconocida trayectoria en Honduras.

[edit] Sites of interest

[edit] Cerro Pelon

Mountain to the north of the city that is named after its lack of large trees. Only desert plants like cacti, small palms and bushes grow here. There are also many caves that make popular tourist attractions. This site is also known as "Cerro Grande"(Large Hill) or Cacalotepe in some geography books. Over the top there is a point of the fist order geodethic net.

[edit] Evangelical Institute Installations

[edit] El Malcotal Installations

[edit] El Manantial Ecocenter

[edit] Cerro Los Tornillos

[edit] Some Closed Mines

[edit] External links

• www.minasdeoro.info website
• 3 D Satelite Images

[edit] Sites in Spanish

• Tablón de avisos de visitantes
• Historia de Don Harold Brosius
• Spanish blog called "Relatos Catrachos" with stories and legends of Minas de Oro
• Mapa del Municipio desplegado en VPR
• Perímetro Urbano en Registro Catastral

Coordinates: 14°48′N, 87°21′W