Talanga

Talanga lies in a broad valley north of Tegucigalpa, among the hills of central Honduras. Much of its surrounding country is level, though ridges and wooded slopes rise around the valley. The settlement was known in colonial times as San Diego de Talanga, a name joining its Spanish patron saint to an older Indigenous place name. Its position places it between the highland basin of Tegucigalpa and the valleys leading toward the north.