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Honduras possesses an important Spanish community that has disseminated by all the national territory. As the National Institute of Statistics of Spain in 2009 live in Honduras 1.982 Spanish citizens. For the time being they exist a lot of Spaniards that benefit of the double nationality that legally allows between both countries.
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History
In March 1524, Gil González Dávila turned into the first Spanish in arriving to Honduras with purposes of conquest. It founded the villa of Saint Gil of Good Sight and confined in Honduran territory pacifying to the Indians, struggling against the Spaniards that contested him the territory, as well as also; esperanzado in finding the desaguadero of the lake of Nicaragua.
Afterwards Hernán Cortés, moved by the reports that had received on the big wealth of the country, sent then two expeditions; one by earth and another by sea. It commissioned the first to Pedro of Alvarado and the second to Cristóbal of Olid. But this last, betrayed him. By this reason, Cortés, went out of Mexico in command of an expedition that lasted near of two years and finished, after thousands of dangers and deprivations, in Trujillo.
Cortés entered the livestock and founded the villa of the Nativity of Our Lady, near of Port Horses. Before his return to Mexico (1526), appointed to Hernando of Saavedra, governor of Honduras and left instructions to give them good deal to the natives.
On 26 October 1526, Diego López of Salcedo, was appointed by the emperor like governor of Honduras, in replacement of Saavedra. The following decade was marked by the personal ambitions of the rulers and the conquerors interfering with the governmental organisation. The colonos Spanish rebelled against of his leaders, and the Indians rebelled against his patterns and against the bad deals.
Creole people where the most insistent to attain the independence of Honduras, the children of Spaniards to the equal that sicedió in all the general Captaincy of Guatemala organised for independizar the country so much of the Realm of Spain as of the Viceroyalty of the New Spain. It initiates the liberal reform to base the proyeccinoes of the country regarding economy and education.
Spaniards that arrived to Honduras after his independence of Spain, went the Catalans during the period of the trade to Europe in the year of 1820.
Honduras was a country that received immigrants of diverse regions of the world, the Spaniards were some of them that initiated the adventure to undertake businesses in rural zones like the crop of coffee, banano and sugar which was exported to Spain and to other European countries, the foreign investment in Honduras was a first advance on the exploitation of the natural resources and generation of wealth and employments, however, the cacicazgo apoderó of the fincas and ranches creating conflicts in the future.
Receiving the treaties of recognitions of titles, to finals of the 19th century and beginnings of the XX, and especially under the impulse of the President Luís Bográn, the Doctor Antonio Abad Ramírez and Fernández Fontecha (Cádiz 1855), Consul Honorario of Spain in Tegucigalpa and equally Rector of the Central University of the Republic of Honduras, President of the Scientific Academy-Literary and President of the Supreme Council of Public Instruction, organised "cultural missions" with the purpose to hire artists and educational Spaniards through an orderly immigration of professionals.
The Spanish immigration in Honduras is protected by the Hispanic Agreement-Honduran of social cooperation, which collects -between other things- "The principle of equality and reciprocity in labour matter, so that the Spaniards and Hondurans that work by extraneous account in Honduras or Spain, respectively, enjoy of the same labour rights that the national corresponding, afterwards to having been accredited like such workers by the competent organisms in both countries", and that seated equally the bases for the current cooperation for the development between Spain and Honduras. Which is equally, coherent with the Treaty of Paz and Friendship, that established in his article 5º that "the natural of any one of the two States will enjoy in the another of those that privileges have been conceded or concede to the citizens of the most favoured Nation, with exception of the ones of Centre America".
From 1996, it is equally in force a Treaty of Double Nationality between the Spanish State and the Republic of Honduras, that makes compatible both nationalities. The by heart Historical Law of Spain has allowed equally that big quantity of Hondurans of Spanish origin recover the nationality of origin.
Spanish culture in Honduras
Spanish language is the greater contribution to the Honduran culture, of colonial period to the date is the main cultural bond with the Realm of Spain and this republic centroamericana.
Holly week is part of the Spanish inheritance of the Hondurans, a religious and secular demonstration that has remained from colonial times until our days.
In the years 50, resident Spaniards in Honduras and ancient Honduran students in Spain created the Honduran Institute of Hispanic Culture.
Spanish collectivity participate actively from does decades in the Festival Folclórico International of San Pedro Sula.
Equally, from mediated of the 2007, Honduras has a Cultural Centre of Spain in Tegucigalpa.
Spanish communities
The city with greater Spanish population in the country is San Pedro Sula, main point for the start of projects of investment and industry with European companies, American and Latin American.
After the creation of the Councils of Residents in Guatemala and Nicaragua, Honduras is one of the last countries of the region without having his own Council.
During the works of reconstrución after the Hurricane Mitch, the network of associations of Spaniards, ONGDs and dependencies of the Embassy of Spain, organised the distribution to national level of the Help of Emergency of Spain.
Diplomatic relations of Spain in Honduras
The embassy of Spain in Honduras not only commissions to protect to those Spanish citizens that reside in the country of temporary or definite way; also, through several civil organisations has supported programs to struggle against of the poverty and malnutrition in Honduran children, as well as projects of rescue of the cultural heritage.
Growth of the Spanish population in Honduras
In the year 2013 the official census of the foreigners nationalised Hondurans was of 29,000 people, of which 23,577 were of countries of the American continent, 2,939 of countries of Europe, 56 of countries of Africa, 19 of countries of Oceania and 2, 603 from Asia, of which 1,415 are Chinese.