La Lima is a municipality in the Honduran department of Cortés. It is home to the corporate headquarters of the Tela Railroad Company, a subsidiary of Chiquita. The city is divided into two halves, La Lima Vieja, located on the western side of the Chamelecon River, and La Lima Nueva, located on the eastern side of the Chamelecon river. They are known as "limeños."
When La Lima split from the municipality of San Pedro Sula, Fernando Ching Navarro was part of the committee in charge of the creation of the municipality of La Lima. When the municipality was created, he went on to become the first major of La Lima; he took office in 1982 and his term ended in 1986. Mr. Fernando Ching died on January 17, 2009 at the age of 84. His restaurant "Pollos La Canasta" which he established since 1969 is still running in Lima Vieja.
La Lima has a strong international presence with the FHIA (Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agrícola) plant laboratories, and the American Zone (Zona Americana) built by the Chiquita banana company in the 1950s in order to provide housing for employees. The "Zona" now incorporates a large foreign population. In "the Zona",is the EILL, Escuela Internacional La Lima
La Lima has one of the largest golf course in Central America.
La Lima is also known as "Little New York", because during years its been said that if you were a great dancer, you had to be from La Lima. Also a large population of limeños have residency in New York City, especially The Bronx and Brooklyn. Most of these people come from the "Colonia Sitraterco". Recently, a large amount of limeños have been arriving to Miami. La Lima is a city where you can walk and see the many activities done in the "centro".
Many soccer players have come out from La Lima, Carlos Pavon, Milton "Chocolate" Flores, Jose Luis'El Pili" Aguirre, Marco Vinicio "El Chacal" Ortega, Jose Luis Lopez, Reynaldo "El Chino" Pineda, Jose "La Coneja" Cardona. Back in the years, La Lima had one of the most famous soccer teams in Honduras, "Sula", known as "los canarios". Sula was Honduras champion in the 40s, 50s. In the 80s, it was one of the teams that played the most technically beautiful soccer, it has been said that in 1987, Sula was the team to be champion, but black-hand was done between coach Nestor Matamala and Olimpia, and left Sula out of the tournament. La Lima fans supported their team in every game, they played their local games in Francisco Morazan stadium, due to the fact that they didn't have a local stadium. They had a good administration running the team, including the likes of people like the Romero Puerto brothers who were involved with the team.
They have the well known music band named "Los Silver Star".
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