La Lima
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La Lima | |
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Municipality | |
Cortés | |
Founded | 1871 |
Area | |
• Municipality | 112 km2 (43 sq mi) |
Population (2023 projection)[1] | |
• Municipality | 89,810 |
• Density | 800/km2 (2,100/sq mi) |
• Urban | 83,032 |
Climate | Aw |
Website | Official website |
La Lima is a city, with a population of 80,740 (2023 calculation),
It is home to the corporate headquarters of the
When La Lima split from the municipality of San Pedro Sula, Fernando Ching Navarro was part of the committee in charge of the creation of the municipality of La Lima. When the municipality was created, he went on to become the first major of La Lima; he took office in 1982 and his term ended in 1986. Mr. Fernando Ching died on 17 January 2009 at the age of 84. His restaurant "Pollos La Canasta" which he established since 1969 is still running in Lima Vieja.
La Lima has a strong international presence with the FHIA (Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agricola) plant laboratories, known before as "La Quimica" and the American Zone (La Zona Americana) built by the Chiquita banana company in the 1950s to provide housing for its first class employees e.g.: President, Vice-President, Managers, Engineers, Agronomists. The "American Zone" nowadays has a large number of foreigners still living there. In "the American Zone",is located the EILL, Escuela Internacional La Lima.
La Lima is also known as "Little New York", because over the years it has been said[by whom?] that if you were a great dancer, you had to be from La Lima. Also a large population of limeños have residency in New York City, especially The Bronx and Brooklyn. Most of these people come from the "Colonia Sitraterco". Recently, a large amount of limeños have been arriving to Miami. La Lima is a city where you can walk and see the many activities done in the "centro".
Geography
Climate
La Lima features a tropical savanna climate (Koppen Aw), with year-round relatively high temperatures and plentiful rainfall year-round. San Pedro Sula has experienced hurricanes and tropical storms and is prone to them during the hurricane season usually when the storms form in the southern part of the Caribbean or Western Africa.
Climate data for La Lima | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 28 (82) |
29 (84) |
31 (88) |
32 (90) |
33 (91) |
33 (91) |
33 (91) |
32 (90) |
32 (90) |
30 (86) |
29 (84) |
28 (82) |
31 (88) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 20 (68) |
21 (70) |
22 (72) |
23 (73) |
24 (75) |
24 (75) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
22 (72) |
21 (70) |
22 (72) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 70 (2.8) |
50 (2.0) |
30 (1.2) |
30 (1.2) |
60 (2.4) |
160 (6.3) |
120 (4.7) |
100 (3.9) |
160 (6.3) |
160 (6.3) |
130 (5.1) |
110 (4.3) |
1,210 (47.6) |
Mean daily sunshine hours | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
Source 1: Weatherbase | |||||||||||||
Source 2: [3] |
Culture
Sports
Many soccer players have come out from La Lima, Carlos Pavón, Milton "Chocolate" Flores, José Luis "El Pili" Aguirre, Marco Vinicio "El Chacal" Ortega, José Luis López, Reynaldo "El Chino" Pineda, José "La Coneja" Cardona, Gilberto Yearwood.
Back in the years, La Lima had one of the most famous soccer teams in Honduras, "
References
- ^ Citypopulation.de Population of departments and municipalities in Honduras
- ^ Citypopulation.de Population of the major cities in Honduras
- ^ "San Pedro Sula Climate Guide, Honduras | World Climate Guide". Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 2 June 2013.