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Examples
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By 1995 there were one fishing inspector, two inspectors from the Ministry of Natural Resources, and a forest technician from the Honduran Corporation for Forest Development, responsible for all protected areas of La Mosquitia, based at Puerto Lempira, some 100 km from the reserve.
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Two weeks ago we went to the town of Gracias in the department of Lempira way out on the west side of Honduras for the REF Religious Equality Forum meeting.
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As a side note, the island is also featured on the back of the 2 Lempira Note here in Honduras.
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Settled by some of Chief Lempira's warriors, the big attraction here besides the verdant, hilly scenery is the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Concepcion, one of the loveliest and oldest churches in Honduras.
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I arrived in Gracias the day before the most important Lencan festival, Cacique Chief Lempira Day.
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The emotional culmination of the festival, however, was a solemn costumed re-enactment of Chief Lempira's final moments at the hands of the Spanish, re-enacted by children wearing conquistador helmets made of silver paper and riding papier-mâché horses.
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Like so much of this part of the world, Gracias was conquered by Spaniards in the early 1500s, but not without a remarkable amount of resistance from the indigenous Lenca people led by a hothead known as Chief Lempira.
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For the next three hours, the streets of Gracias were awash in homemade floats topped with waving children and adorable animals, groups of costumed paraders representing either the Spanish or the Lencans, the sound of marching bands and beauty queens of all ages, each wearing a heavy handmade dress decorated with beans, corn kernels and plants in designs representing Lempira's face, farm life and jungle scenes.
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They recycle the containers to carry an acrid, viscous, amber-coloured industrial grade glue that is cheaper than crack, gets them higher than cocaine, and costs just $15 Lempira ($1 Canadian) a hit.
TheTyee.ca Susan Hollis 2010
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Is it more common to use U.S. dollars in Honduras, or do they commonly use the Lempira?
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