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The Central Bank of Honduras (Spanish: Banco Central de Honduras) was established on 1 July 1950. [2] The president of the bank is appointed by President of Honduras for a term of four years. [ 3 ] The current bank president is Rebeca Santos.
The Bank of Honduras and the Banco Atlantida issued the first lempira banknotes in 1932. They were in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 lempiras. The Central Bank of Honduras took over production of paper money in 1950, introducing 50 and 100 lempiras notes in 1950, followed by the 500-lempiras note in 1995.
List of all American sovereign state currencies Present currency Country or dependency (administrating country) Currency sign Fractional unit Ref(s) Aruban florin Aruba (Netherlands)
www.bccr.fi.cr: The Central Bank of Costa Rica (Spanish: Banco Central de Costa Rica) is the central bank of Costa Rica. Scope.
The bank was founded on September 1, 1951, in the city of Santa Rosa de Copan, by Manuel Bueso Pineda and Jorge Bueso Arias and previously authorized by the Executive Branch of Honduras on 30 August 1951 by resolution No. 500 of the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit.
Lempira is a rugged department, and it is relatively isolated from the rest of the country. The highest mountain peak in Honduras, Cerro las Minas, is in Lempira. The department was named after Lempira, a local chieftain of the Lenca people who fought against the Spanish conquistadores in the early 16th century.
It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.
The symbol for the colón is a capital letter "C" crossed by two diagonal strokes.The symbol is encoded at U+20A1 ₡ COLON SIGN [2] and may be typed on many English language Microsoft Windows keyboards using the keystrokes ALT+ 8353.