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The Festival is held in Downtown San Antonio at the Institute of Texan Cultures on UTSA's HemisFair Park Campus, located at the corner of Bowie Street and Cesar Chavez Boulevard, just off Interstate 37 South. [2] The Texas Folklife Festival [3] was modeled after the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which was first held in Washington, D.C. in 1967 ...
Additionally, San Pedro Sula was left exposed to raids by pirates and French, Dutch, and English mercenaries. By the mid-18th century, the Spanish government decided to build a number of coastal fortresses to curb English attacks. One of these fortresses, the Fortaleza de San Fernando, was built in Omoa, less than 50 miles from San Pedro Sula ...
The Merendón Mountains rise in western Cortés, but the department is mostly a tropical lowland, the Sula Valley, crossed by the Ulúa and Chamelecon rivers. It was created in 1893 from parts of the departments of Santa Bárbara and Yoro. The departmental capital is San Pedro Sula.
The festival, also known as the Battle of Flowers, commemorates of the Battle of the Alamo, which took place in San Antonio, and the Battle of San Jacinto, which led to Texas' independence from Mexico in April 1836. Fiesta is the city's biggest festival, with an economic impact of $340 million for the city. [1]
San Antonio de Cortés is a town, with a population of 5,509 (2013 census), [2] and a municipality in the Honduran department of Cortés. [3] References
San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-222-5. Bremer, Thomas S. (2004). Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-5580-5. Chambers, William T. (1940). "San Antonio, Texas". Economic Geography.
The Feria Juniana (June Fair) of San Pedro Sula includes musical concerts performed throughout the week, sporting events and exhibitions. Puerto Cortés celebrates its fair in August with a "Venice" theme which includes parades of gondolas and other boats in the bay, and an evening fireworks display launched from boats.
Surrounding the source of the springs, the 46-acre park is the oldest in the state of Texas. It is the location of a Payaya Indian village known as Yanaguana, [2] and is the original site of the city of San Antonio. [2] The park is alternately known as San Pedro Park. The park was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1965. [3]