Amapala
Amapala is a municipality in the Honduran department of Valle. It is formed by El Tigre Island and its satellite islets and rocks in the Gulf of Fonseca.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alfredobi, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Isla del Tigre and Amapala Airport.
Isla del Tigre
Photo: Saraedum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Isla del Tigre is an island in the Gulf of Fonseca in Pacific Honduras. The tranquil island is essentially just a volcanic peak that sharply rises from the ocean.
Amapala Airport
Aerodrome
Amapala Airport was an airstrip serving the town of Amapala on El Tigre Island, a volcanic island in the Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras. The runway is at the foot of the volcano, on the northeast side of the island, 3.2 kilometres east of Amapala. Amapala Airport is situated 4 km east of Amapala.
Amapala
- Type: Town with 2,140 residents
- Description: municipality in Valle Department, Honduras
- Categories: municipality of Honduras and locality
- Location: Amapala, Valle Department, Honduras, Central America, North America
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Latitude
13.29291° or 13° 17′ 35″ northLongitude
-87.65336° or 87° 39′ 12″ westPopulation
2,140Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)United Nations Location Code
HN AMPOpen location code
765J78VW+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 321618441OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Amapala” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Amapala”
- Basque: “Amapala”
- Breton: “Amapala”
- Catalan: “Amapala”
- Cebuano: “Amapala”
- Chinese: “Amapala”
- Chinese: “阿馬帕拉”
- Dutch: “Amapala”
- French: “Amapala”
- Galician: “Amapala”
- German: “Amapala”
- Italian: “Amapala”
- Japanese: “アマパラ”
- Korean: “아마팔라”
- Lithuanian: “Amapala”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amapala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amapala”
- Persian: “اماپالا”
- Portuguese: “Amapala”
- Russian: “Амапала”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amapala”
- Slovak: “Amapala”
- Spanish: “Amapala”
- Swedish: “Amapala”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amapala”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Amapala”. Photo: Alfredobi, Public domain.