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Western Honduran Foodways

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Copán, Ocotepeque, Santa Bárbara and Lempira, against the Guatemalan and Salvadoran borders. ⚠ COPÁN IS A MAYA CITY — the Classic Maya capital whose archaeology records a maize-and-cacao agricultural economy — and its modern people are CH’ORTI’ MAYA and Ladino, not one thing. LENCA territory runs through Lempira and Intibucá. The food: maize and beans; TICUCOS, the bean-filled tamalito; CHILATE; ATOL CHUCO; TAMALITOS DE ELOTE; POZOL; cuajada and quesillo; and the COFFEE of Copán, Ocotepeque and Marcala, the last holding a Honduran denomination of origin. Cacao grows here and in the Sula valley.

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Communities and languages

  • Ch’orti’ community documented
  • Lenca community documented

Languages: Spanish, Ch'orti', Lenca-Honduras

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Ch’orti’ Foodways documented

    ⚠ ONE PEOPLE, TWO COUNTRIES, AND THE BORDER IS NOT ERASED. Ch’orti’ is still spoken in Guatemala and is recorded as no longer spoken on the Honduran side, where the community remains.

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