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Catacamas is a city with a population of 63,310 (2023 calculation), [2] and a municipality in the Olancho Department of Honduras. It is the largest municipality in Central America in terms of area. Overview
The ossuary chamber was discovered in 1994 by a Peace Corps volunteer named Timothy Berg, along with two Catacamas locals named Desiderio Reyes and Jorge Yáñez, and research is still being conducted in the area. In the 18th and 19th century, Olancho resisted government authority from Tegucigalpa, resulting in armed conflicts.
Talgua Cave ("Cave of the Glowing Skulls"; “Cueva del Rio Talgua”) is a cave located in the Olancho Valley in the municipality of Catacamas in northeastern Honduras. The misnomer “The Cave of the Glowing Skulls” was given to the cave because of the way that light reflects off of the calcite deposits found on the skeletal remains found ...
El Aguacate Airport (ICAO: MHGE) is an airport serving the city of Catacamas in Olancho Department, Honduras. The airport is 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) east of the city. The runway has an additional 760 metres (2,490 ft) of paved overrun on the western end.
Dulce Nombre de Culmí (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdulse ˈnombɾe ðe kulˈmi]) is a municipality in the northeastern region of the Honduran department of Olancho.It lies approximately 17 miles (27 km.) southeast of San Esteban and about 27 miles (43 km.) northeast of Catacamas.
Juticalpa's sister city, Catacamas, is located at the easternmost terminus of the paved Olancho highway. The Boulevard Los Poetas connects Barrio El Centro to the Olancho highway and receives Honduran intercity bus traffic.
Currently, the Valle de Catacamas basin extends along the Guayape fault for 290 kilometers. [1] Early tectonic research in 1977 suggested a possible origin for the underlying land in the Pacific Ocean rather than on the Caribbean Plate. [2] Through the Mesozoic, particularly the Cretaceous and into the Paleogene red beds deposited.
Catacamas virus is a single-stranded, enveloped novel RNA virus in the genus Orthohantavirus of the order Bunyavirales isolated in Oryzomys couesi near the town of Catacamas in eastern Honduras. [1] It is a member virus of Bayou orthohantavirus .