Omoa
Omoa is a city of 54,000 people in Honduras. It is a town on the Caribbean Sea coast, just west of Puerto Cortes and a short journey north of San Pedro Sula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Garcia.dennis, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fortaleza de San Fernando.
Fortaleza de San Fernando
Castle
Photo: Luis Alfredo Romero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Fortaleza de San Fernando is a colonial-era Spanish fortress in Omoa, Honduras. Built between 1756 and 1775, the fortress guarded Spanish interests in the-then Captaincy General of Guatemala before being seized by the Honduran government in 1821.
Omoa
- Type: Town with 4,760 residents
- Description: municipality in Cortés Department, Honduras
- Categories: municipality of Honduras and locality
- Location: Cortés Department, Caribbean Honduras, Honduras, Central America, North America
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Latitude
15.7759° or 15° 46′ 33″ northLongitude
-88.0375° or 88° 2′ 15″ westPopulation
4,760Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)United Nations Location Code
HN OMOOpen location code
767HQXG6+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 13003565608OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Omoa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوموا”
- Basque: “Omoa”
- Catalan: “Omoa”
- Cebuano: “Omoa”
- Chinese: “Omoa”
- Chinese: “奧莫阿”
- Dutch: “Omoa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوموا”
- Finnish: “Omoa”
- French: “Omoa”
- German: “Omoa”
- Hebrew: “אומואה”
- Italian: “Omoa”
- Japanese: “オモア”
- Lithuanian: “Omoa”
- Low German: “Omoa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Omoa”
- Polish: “Omoa”
- Portuguese: “Omoa (cortés)”
- Portuguese: “Omoa”
- Spanish: “Omoa”
- Swedish: “Omoa”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Omoa”. Photo: Garcia.dennis, CC BY 3.0.