Amapala, Valle, Honduras Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Amapala ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History

 * The Decree of October 17, 1833 ordered the establishment of a port on Isla del Tigre.
 * Its origins date back to colonial times, it was the official port of the Pacific coast and an important community during the first republican years in Honduras.
 * On August 26, 1876 Amapala was the capital of Honduras.
 * 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.
 * This same year, a coup was carried out against the Salvadoran president by Tomás Regalado and declared the separation of El Salvador from the republic and shortly afterwards Honduras and Nicaragua did the same.
 * The municipality of Amapala has a population of approximately 14,200 people.

Civil Registration

 * 1906-1924 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - index & images

Church Records

 * 1870-1979 (*) at FamilySearch Catalog - index & images

Cemeteries
Indexes of those buried in the cemeteries of the municipality of Amapala may be located in findagrave.com
 * Cementerio General de Amapala
 * Cementerio General de Puerto Grande
 * Direction: 9987+R4G, Puerto Grande