Tegucigalpa

[ tuh-goo-si-gal-puh; Spanish te-goo-see-gahl-pah ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Honduras, in the S part.

Tegucigalpa

/ teɣuθiˈɣalpa /

noun

1. the capital of Honduras, in the south on the Choluteca River: founded about 1579; university (1847). Pop: 1 061 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Just over two years later - and only weeks after he had left office - Mr Hernández was arrested at his home in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.

From BBC

The former president was arrested at his home in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, in February 2022 — just three months after leaving office — and was extradited to the U.S. in April of that year.

From Seattle Times

He was arrested at his home in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, in February 2022, just three months after leaving office, and was extradited to the U.S. in April that year.

From Seattle Times

A native of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Alvarado uses her profits from street vending to support her three children.

From Los Angeles Times

She came with her sister and her sister’s 8-year-old grandnephew, who was riding on the back of his father’s motorcycle in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa in 2019 when an assailant fatally shot his father.

From Seattle Times