Santa Lucía, Intibucá
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Santa Lucía is a municipality
in the Honduran
department of Intibucá.
Santa Lucía is nestled in a valley along the San Juan river, in the remote mountains of the province of Intibucá. It is one of the poorest towns in the province, though in recent years there have been marked improvements in infrastructure and civil services.
and the non-profit Shoulder to Shoulder
sponsored a building program for a clinical complex on the northeastern edge of the town. This is the only healthcare provider for an area comprising 10 other villages, and features several clinical offices, a small pharmacy, and a dental suite. A small full time staff is onsite year round, and UC and other schools supply brigades of medical students and other volunteers to perform free clinic work and preventative medicine for the people of Santa Lucía.
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 Intibucá.
Santa Lucía is nestled in a valley along the San Juan river, in the remote mountains of the province of Intibucá. It is one of the poorest towns in the province, though in recent years there have been marked improvements in infrastructure and civil services.
Recent developments
In the 1990s, the University of CincinnatiUniversity of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati is a comprehensive public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio....
and the non-profit Shoulder to Shoulder
Shoulder to Shoulder
"Shoulder to Shoulder" was a book and 1974 BBC TV miniseries of the women's suffrage movement both by Midge Mackenzie.The book documents the lives and works of some of Britain's leading "suffragettes." It includes many excerpts from their speeches, diaries, letters, memoirs, other writings and...
sponsored a building program for a clinical complex on the northeastern edge of the town. This is the only healthcare provider for an area comprising 10 other villages, and features several clinical offices, a small pharmacy, and a dental suite. A small full time staff is onsite year round, and UC and other schools supply brigades of medical students and other volunteers to perform free clinic work and preventative medicine for the people of Santa Lucía.