Tegucigalpa

Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras. Honduras is a country in Central America.

The city sits on hills. Green mountains stand all around it.

Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras, Universalis says. It sits on hills ringed by mountains, at nearly 1,000 meters above sea level.

Since 1938, Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela, on the other side of the Choluteca River, have formed one district, the Distrito Central. The Honduran statistics institute's projection gave the Distrito Central municipality 1,326,460 people in 2023. At the 2013 census, the city itself had 996,658 people.

Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Honduras (via City Population): Distrito Central municipality 906,129 (census 2001), 1,157,509 (census 2013), 1,326,460 (projection, 1 July 2023). The city of Tegucigalpa: 598,807 (1988), 819,867 (2001), 996,658 (2013); City Population notes that its tabulated figures are adjusted for underenumeration.

Universalis: the capital of Honduras lies on hills encircled by mountains, at nearly 1,000 m; in 1938 it merged with Comayagüela, on the opposite (south) bank of the río Choluteca, to form the distrito central.

Look at the green field! It is a stadium for football.

Behind it, tall buildings and red roofs fill the city. Houses climb up the green hills.

This photo of the historic center of Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela was taken on 1 September 2025. In front is a stadium with a green football field and blue and white stands. Behind it, office towers rise among red-tiled roofs, and small houses climb the green hills. Mountains fill the back of the picture.

The photographer wrote that a mix of colonial and modern buildings gives the two towns a look of their own.

Commons: 'Centro historico de Tegucigalpa y Comayagüela', 1 September 2025, own work by Luis Alfredo Romero (the uploader), CC BY-SA 4.0; description: a mix of colonial and modern buildings has given Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela a peculiar look. The file sits in the Commons categories for Comayagüela, views of Tegucigalpa and stadiums in Tegucigalpa.

In the picture: a stadium with a football pitch and blue, white and red stands in the foreground; office blocks and red-tiled roofs in the middle; dense housing on the hillsides, a bare scar on one slope, and forested mountains behind. Wikidata places La Tigra National Park about 16 km northeast of the city's point.

In Tegucigalpa, factories make clothes and many other things.

Mines near the city dig up silver, lead and zinc.

Tegucigalpa's industry once made goods mostly for local people, Universalis says. It grew in the 1970s, after the roads got better. Today the city makes textiles and clothes, tobacco, sugar, wood products, metal goods, chemicals, tires and farm machines.

At the end of the 20th century, more and more foreign assembly factories, called maquiladoras, opened there. Mines in the region produce silver, lead and zinc.

Universalis: industry, formerly mostly for local consumption, developed in the 1970s following improvements to the road network. The city concentrates textile manufacturing, clothing, the tobacco, sugar and wood industries, metallurgy, and chemical, tire and farm-machinery industries; a growing number of maquiladoras (foreign assembly plants) set up in the metropolis at the end of the 20th century. The region's mines extract silver, lead and zinc.

The town itself began as a mining settlement in 1578, on the slopes of Mount Picacho.