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Lempira was a warrior, chieftain of the Lencas of western Honduras in Central America during the 1530s, when he led resistance to Francisco de Montejo's attempts to ...
The lempira was named after the 16th-century cacique Lempira, a ruler of the indigenous Lenca people, who is renowned in Honduran folklore for leading the local native resistance against the Spanish conquistador forces. He is a national hero and is honored on both the 1 lempira note and the 20 and 50 centavos coins.
Oreopanax lempiranus is a species of plant in the family Araliaceae.It is endemic to the Parque Nacional Montaña de Celaque in the occidente of Honduras.The plant is known in Spanish as the "arbol del oro del cacique lempira" for the golden colored trichomes on the leaf and the significance of the native chief Lempira in the region.
In secret, Lempira planned an uprising near his stronghold at Peñol de Cerquín, and if it were successful, to follow it with a widespread revolt across his entire territory. [183] Lempira strengthened the fortifications of the Peñol de Cerquín, and gathered large numbers of warriors, provisions, and weapons there.
Painting depicting the chief Lempira fighting against a conquistador. In 1537 Francisco de Montejo was appointed governor. He set aside the division of territory made by Alvarado on arriving in Honduras. One of his principal captains, Alonso de Cáceres, quelled the indigenous revolt led by the cacique Lempira in 1537 and 1538.
A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique (Latin American Spanish:; Portuguese: [kɐˈsikɨ, kaˈsiki]; feminine form: cacica), was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, who were the Indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles at the time of European contact with those places.
Cacique, a term used among the Taino Nation of the Caribbean islands, later adopted by the Spanish to refer to all heads of chiefdoms whom they encountered: Cuauhtémoc, Tecun Uman, Tenamaxtli, Atlácatl, Lempira, Nicarao (cacique), Tupac Amaru II; Sachem, term of chiefdom of the Algonquian nations of present-day New England in the United States
Lempira may refer to: Lempira (Lenca ruler) (died 1537), 16th century leader of the Lenca peoples of Central America, who led local resistance against the Spanish conquistadores Honduran lempira , unit of currency