Gracias
Gracias is a small Honduran town/municipality that was founded in 1536, and is the capital of Lempira Department. The municipality has a population of 61,421 and the town a population of 18,550. It is located in the mountainous center of western Honduras.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 50,300 residents
- Description: city in Honduras
- Also known as: “Gracias, Lempira”
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Cristóbal fortress and Celaque Airport.
San Cristóbal fortress
Castle
Photo: Ayaita, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The San Cristóbal fortress is located in the city of Gracias, department of Lempira, built on a small hill above the city, which was formerly the center of the town of Gracias Lempira, which was once the capital of New Spain and headquarters of the Real…
Celaque Airport
Aerodrome
Celaque Airport is an airport serving the town of Gracias in Lempira Department, Honduras. The airport was inaugurated in 2013. There is high terrain southwest of the airport. The Soto Cano VORTAC is located 57.6 nautical miles east of the airport.
Gracias
- Categories: municipality of Honduras and locality
- Location: Lempira Department, Honduran Highlands, Honduras, Central America, North America
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Latitude
14.5889° or 14° 35′ 20″ northLongitude
-88.5805° or 88° 34′ 50″ westPopulation
50,300Elevation
805 metres (2,641 feet)IATA airport code
GACUnited Nations Location Code
HN GACOpen location code
766HHCQ9+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 13235480977OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3609586Wikidata ID
Q2561339
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Gracias” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غراسياس، هندوراس”
- Asturian: “Gracias”
- Basque: “Gracias”
- Bengali: “গ্রাসিয়াস”
- Catalan: “Gracias”
- Cebuano: “Gracias”
- Chinese: “Gracias”
- Chinese: “格拉西亚斯”
- Chinese: “格拉西亞斯”
- Danish: “Gracias”
- Dutch: “Gracias”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جراسياس”
- Esperanto: “Gracias”
- Finnish: “Gracias”
- French: “Gracias”
- Galician: “Gracias”
- German: “Gracias”
- Greek: “Γκράσιας”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રેસિયસ”
- Hebrew: “גרסיאס”
- Hindi: “ग्रासिअस”
- Hungarian: “Gracias”
- Indonesian: “Gracias”
- Italian: “Gracias”
- Japanese: “グラシアス”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರೇಸಿಯಾಸ್”
- Korean: “그라시아스”
- Latvian: “Grasjasa”
- Lithuanian: “Grasjasas”
- Luxembourgish: “Gracias”
- Malay: “Gracias”
- Marathi: “ग्रासियास”
- Marathi: “ग्रेशियस”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gracias”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gracias”
- Persian: “گرسیاس”
- Polish: “Gracias”
- Portuguese: “Gracias”
- Russian: “Грасиас”
- Russian: “Грасьяс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gracias”
- Sinhala: “ග්රසියාස්”
- Spanish: “Gracias”
- Swedish: “Gracias”
- Tamil: “க்ராஸியஸ்”
- Telugu: “గ్రాసియాస్”
- Thai: “กราเซียส”
- Turkish: “Gracias”
- Ukrainian: “Грасіас”
- Urdu: “گراسیاس”
- Vietnamese: “Gracias”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gracias, Lempira”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gracias”
- “Gracias”
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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 “Gracias”. Photo: Saraedum, CC BY-SA 4.0.