Minas de Oro | |
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  Minas de Oro | |
| Coordinates: 14°48′0″N87°21′15″W / 14.80000°N 87.35417°W Coordinates: 14°48′0″N87°21′15″W / 14.80000°N 87.35417°W | |
| Country |  Honduras |
| Departament | Comayagua |
| Area | |
| • Total | 390 km2 (150 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,060 m (3,480 ft) |
| Population (2015) [1] | |
| • Total | 13,341 |
| • Density | 34/km2 (89/sq mi) |
| Area code(s) | 27 |
| Website | www.minasdeoro.info |
Minas de Oro is a municipality in the Honduran department of Comayagua.
Minas de Oro is located to the northeast of Comayagua, 150 km to the northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. It is surround by the mountains named Grande, El Cobre and El Peñón. 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.
Minas de Oro was founded as a consequence of the gold rushes that were common in the region, when workers and neighbours settled in the area. During one of his visits to this place, Juan Lindo discovered a gold mine.[ citation needed ] For that reason it has continued to be called "Minas de Oro" (Gold Mines).
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. 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 café 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.
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.
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