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AMAPALA

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 780 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMAPALA , the only See also:

port on the Pacific See also:coast of See also:Honduras, on the See also:northern See also:shore of See also:Tigre See also:island, in the See also:Bay of See also:Fonseca (q.v.); in 130 3' N., and 87° 9' W. Pop. (19o5) about 4000. Amapala was founded in 1838, and its port was opened and declared See also:free in 1868. The roadstead is perfectly sheltered and so deep that the largest vessels can See also:lie within a few yards of the shore. It is the natural outlet for the See also:commerce of some of the richest parts of Honduras, See also:Nicaragua and See also:Salvador; and during the 19th See also:century it exported large quantities of .See also:gold, See also:silver and other ores, although its progress was retarded by the delay in constructing a transcontinental railway from Puerto See also:Cortes. Its depots on the mainland, both about 30 in. distant,are La Brea, for the See also:line to Puerto Cortes, and See also:San Lorenzo, for See also:Tegucigalpa. Silver is still exported, in: addition to hides, See also:timber, See also:coffee and See also:indigo, and there are valuable See also:fisheries.

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