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A street of Gracias. The city is one of the most visited tourist sites by Hondurans and has experienced an improvement in infrastructure since the beginning of the last decade, such as the restoration of its historic buildings such as the Iglesia de la Merced among others dating from the colonial period. The estimated population level of the ...
The fantastic tale of an vengeful crowd taking a shoeshine man from the Church of Mercy (Iglesia de La Merced), where he had taken refuge in the ancient city Gracias a Dios (now Gracias, Lempira). A punishment was meted to the populace after they beheaded him for profaning the sanctuary of the church (vox populi graciana). La Sucia (the filthy one)
La merced church before its restroration during the early 1960s. The church was built in 1550 during the early colonial era of Honduras by Fray Gaspar de Quintanilla, However, it was not the first to be built in Honduras since the first was the Trujillo church, but it is the oldest Catholic temple still standing since the Trujillo Church disappeared in the 19th century. [2]
It was named Gracias department until 1943. In colonial times, Gracias was an early important administrative center for the Spaniards. It eventually lost importance to Antigua, in Guatemala. Lempira is a rugged department, and it is relatively isolated from the rest of the country. The highest mountain peak in Honduras, Cerro las Minas, is
Gracias a Dios department covers a total surface area of 16,997 km 2 and, in 2015, had an estimated population of 94,450. [citation needed] Although it is the second largest department in the country, it is sparsely populated, and contains extensive pine savannas, swamps, and rainforests. However, the expansion of the agricultural frontier is a ...
San Manuel Colohete (Spanish pronunciation: [sam maˈnwel koloˈete]) is a municipality in the Honduran department of Lempira, located approximately twenty miles southwest of the departmental capital of Gracias. The population of the entire municipality is around 15,000 but within the town center about 1,500.
La Merced Church, Antigua Guatemala; La Merced Church, Burgos; Convento de la Merced in Valdunquillo; La Merced Cloister in Mexico City; See also. es:Iglesia de la Merced
In the population record of 1702 there were some people booked. In the census of 1791, it is a town part of "Curato" de Cerquin and in 1889 it was a municipality of Candelaria. It is supposed that Lempira, the national hero, received the power from "Etempic" chief when the Spanish arrived, lived in this municipality. The Old Colonial Church