Travel Guide Trujillo

Forgotten by investors, the city of Trujillo extends lazily on the edge of a beautiful bay which does not evoke the Caribbean paradise. The surrounding area has some tourist potential, but it can be doubted that things change in several years. This is not an essential step - far from it - but a regenerative break after a stay in an international atmosphere on the islands, or for adventurers who want to win the mythical Région region.This is where Christopher Columbus first laid foot on the territory of the New World in 1502, celebrating first mass in the Americas. Then Juan de Medina officially founded the city on 18 May 1525 on the site of the indigenous settlement Guaimura. It appears that the area was inhabited well before the arrival of the conquistadors; Some archaeologists even assume that the bay was a popular crossing point for the Mesoamerican indigenous populations, the Tolupan, the Pech, the Mexicas and the Maya.For a few decades, Trujillo asserted himself as the capital of Honduras. The pirates heard it well from this ear and had early come to the news and plunder the first shops that flowered. Thus, English William Jackson practically devastated the city in 1642, before the Dutch Jan Van Horn completed the massacre a few years later. The Spanish decided then to abandon the colony until the end of the th century, when the British presence throughout the Caribbean coast encouraged them to strengthen their positions. In 1780, a contingent of soldiers settled there; at the same time, Garifuna from the island of Saint Vincent arrived in Roatán and established themselves en masse, before colonizing the rest of the northern coast of Honduras. At the beginning of the th century, the growth of the banana industry also affected the region, and the port of Puerto Castilla became the main source of work for the community. Today, the region remains in the cultivation of African bananas and palm trees, which are produced from oil, soap or butter. The beaches around the city are pretty, but you may be disappointed if you hope to swim in a turquoise water under indolents palms, there is better elsewhere. The atmosphere is lymphatic and better not to be pressed.