La Jigua
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La Jigua is a municipality
in the Honduran
department of Copán. The Mayan ruins site and archaeological park of El Puente
are located in La Jigua.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Honduran
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
department of Copán. The Mayan ruins site and archaeological park of El Puente
El Puente
El Puente, or the Parque Arqueológico El Puente , is a Maya archaeological site in the department of Copán in Honduras. Once an independent Maya city, the city of El Puente became a tributary to the nearby city of Copán between the 6th and 9th centuries AD...
are located in La Jigua.