Amapala is a
municipalityA municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. A municipality is typically governed by a mayor and a city council or municipal council.The notion of municipality...
in the
HonduranHonduras is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras...
department||-|The Central American nation of Honduras is currently divided into 18 departments . Each department is headed by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Honduras.- Departments of Honduras :...
of Valle. It is formed by
El Tigre IslandFor other uses please see Tigre El Tigre is an island located in the Gulf of Fonseca, a body of water on the Pacific coast of Central America. The island is a conical basaltic stratovolcano and the southernmost volcano in Honduras. It belongs to Valle department. Together with a few tiny satellite...
and its satellite islets and rocks in the Gulf of Fonseca. It has an area of 75.2 km² and a population of 2,482 as of the
censusA "census" is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population.In other words every 10 years...next one would be in 2010 The term is used mostly in connection with...
of 2001 (of which 4 people were living on Isla Comandante). Thanks to a natural deep channel, and despite lacking modern infrastructure, Amapala long served as the main Honduran port in the Pacific Ocean.
Beginning in the late 1800s, Amapala was gradually replaced by the port of San Lorenzo on the mainland.
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Amapala is a
municipalityA municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. A municipality is typically governed by a mayor and a city council or municipal council.The notion of municipality...
in the
HonduranHonduras is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras...
department||-|The Central American nation of Honduras is currently divided into 18 departments . Each department is headed by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Honduras.- Departments of Honduras :...
of Valle. It is formed by
El Tigre IslandFor other uses please see Tigre El Tigre is an island located in the Gulf of Fonseca, a body of water on the Pacific coast of Central America. The island is a conical basaltic stratovolcano and the southernmost volcano in Honduras. It belongs to Valle department. Together with a few tiny satellite...
and its satellite islets and rocks in the Gulf of Fonseca. It has an area of 75.2 km² and a population of 2,482 as of the
censusA "census" is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population.In other words every 10 years...next one would be in 2010 The term is used mostly in connection with...
of 2001 (of which 4 people were living on Isla Comandante). Thanks to a natural deep channel, and despite lacking modern infrastructure, Amapala long served as the main Honduran port in the Pacific Ocean.
Beginning in the late 1800s, Amapala was gradually replaced by the port of San Lorenzo on the mainland. A description of the town in 1881 can be found in the book
A Lady's Ride Across Spanish Honduras by Mary Lester (a.k.a. Mary Soltera).
It was intended to be the capital of the
Republic of Central AmericaThe Greater Republic of Central America was a short-lived union between Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador, lasting from 1896 to 1898. It was an attempt to revive the failed Federal Republic of Central America earlier in the century....
in the late 1890s.