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San Sebastián, Lempira

municipality in Lempira Department, Honduras

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ3947953 ↗
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San Sebastián is a municipality in the Honduran department of Lempira.

It is one of the most isolated municipalities in Lempira and is located 13 km away from San Manuel Colohete.

History

In the 1887 census, San Sebastián appeared as Colosuca village, of Gracias. It became a municipality on 7 March 1896. The name "Colosuca" means "Beautiful Place".

Geography

The municipality capital is up on a big mountain, surrounded by many pine trees and some oak trees. The mountains are very high and steep. In some of these mountains the vegetation changes to bushes and undergrowth. The origin of the rocks and soil all around is volcanic.

Boundaries

Its boundaries are:

North: San Manuel Colohete municipality and Ocotepeque department.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887, 1896—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sebastián, Lempira and municipality can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as municipality in Lempira Department, Honduras. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3947953. Authority coordinates are 14.402, -88.731. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1887 and 1896.

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This entry incorporates text from “San Sebastián, Lempira” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.