Ollalko

Olancho is a broad inland valley enclosed by the mountains of eastern Honduras. Spanish conquerors founded San Jorge in the valley during the sixteenth century, and the region became known for its cultivated fields. In 1611 the friar Esteban Verdelete described sugar cane, plantains and cacao growing there alongside cassava, sweet potatoes, cotton and fruit trees. San Jorge was destroyed in the early seventeenth century, leaving later settlements to carry on the valley’s name.

The later city of Juticalpa lies here.