The name of the island on which Amapala is located is due to the fact that in the 16th century a group of pirates operated on the island commanded by the pirate Francis Drake. He and his men were considered by the inhabitants of the area to be wild and bloodthirsty beasts. , so they called the island "Cerro del Tigre".
In 1876 (August 26), Amapala was the capital of Honduras, when Doctor Marco Aurelio Soto took provisional possession of the government.
A description of the city and Island of Amapala in 1881 can be found in the book A Lady's Ride Across written by Mary Lester (alias Mary Soltera), in the late 1890s the island was designated to be the capital of the Republic of America. Central.
In 1895, Amapala was designated as the capital of the Greater Republic of Central America, an attempt to reestablish the defunct Federal Republic of Central America with the unification of the States of El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. The short-lived union changed its official name to the United States of Central America when its constitution came into effect in 1898, retaining its capital in Amapala. However, in this same year, a coup d'état was carried out against the Salvadoran president by Tomás Regalado and he declared the separation of El Salvador from the republic and shortly after, Honduras and Nicaragua did the same. In such a way that Amapala was at the time the federal capital of the other republic.
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