Nestled in a admirable abounding abundance basin on the arctic ancillary
of La Tigra National Park about an hour's drive northeast of
Tegucigalpa, San Juancito began it's career about 1880 if mining
investors active the old Spanish gold and argent blasting from the 16th
century. With alfresco investment the boondocks boomed and the mines
connected to abstract gold and argent from the mountainside until the
1950's. Miners were able-bodied paid by bounded standards, and their
families enjoyed the best in schools and medical facilities.
During the bang years San Juancito was the a lot of avant-garde and
accelerating city-limits in Central America, boasting a best citizenry
of about fifty thousand people. Mining aggregation money brought
abounding new and never afore apparent innovations to the area. San
Juancito had the actual aboriginal electrical ability bulb in Honduras,
appropriately the aboriginal electric lights, as able-bodied as the
aboriginal cine amphitheater in all of Central America and Honduras'
aboriginal telegraph. The aboriginal bottling bulb in Latin America was
congenital in San Juancito by Pepsi Cola.
In the mid-fifties the aggregate of abbreviating ore affluence as
able-bodied as abiding activity disputes saw the adopted mining
companies and investors cull out of the area, banishment a lot of of the
citizenry to accompany in the departure to seek added work. The actual
citizenry were larboard to eek out a active as best they could.
In October, 1998, Hurricane Mitch addled Honduras, the a lot of adverse
accustomed adversity to anytime action the country. Abounding lives were
absent and at atomic sixty houses were destroyed in San Juancito either
by the calamity river or by mud and rockslides from the mountains.
Though abounding adopted organizations came to advice clean the
infrastructure, the little pueblo never recovered from this abhorrent
blow.
A airing through San Juancito is a admirable experience. Two baby
blubbering streams assemble appropriate in the average of town, and a
apathetic attributes airing up either is aliment for the soul. Soft
air-conditioned breezes wafting down the coulee altogether accompaniment
a wading backpack in the bright clear water, while anonymous chirps and
coos of boscage birds are everywhere. In boondocks abounding humans are
active in aforetime alone miners' residences, while absolutely a amount
of abandoned houses arm-twist a abandoned and addictive aggregate of
apricot homesickness and an awesome faculty of the attendance of alcohol
of lives continued past.
Today San Juancito is home to maybe a thousand able souls, abounding of
whom drive to Tegucigalpa every day to work. The boondocks is the bottom
of the two arch entrances to La Tigra National Park but they see actual
few tourists because the dependable adorableness of the park's arctic
ancillary has yet to be apparent by the world. The citizenry are a poor
but blessed and appreciative people. Though amidst by some of the a lot
of admirable and abundant close backdrop in the world, they aswell see
at every about-face the scars of tragedy and the crumbling charcoal of
accomplished glory.
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