Olanchito
Encyclopedia
Olanchito is a town and municipality
in the Honduran
department of Yoro. Ramón Amaya Amador
, a famous novelist, was born here.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Honduran
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
department of Yoro. Ramón Amaya Amador
Ramón Amaya Amador
-Biography:Amaya was born in Olanchito in the department of Yoro. After being educated in La Ceiba he worked on the banana plantations along the Northern Caribbean coast of Honduras. He published his first work in 1939. He became a journalist in 1941 for El Atlántico , a La Ceiba newspaper. In...
, a famous novelist, was born here.