Toquegua

The Toquegua were associated with the Caribbean coast from the mouth of the Golfo Dulce toward the Ulúa River in Honduras. Sixteenth-century accounts describe them as traders in cacao and prized feathers, including those of the quetzal, and as hosts to Maya visitors from Yucatán. Their coastal communities belonged to a network of exchange extending along the sea and into the interior. Spanish conquest and missionary campaigns altered these connections and displaced many Indigenous settlements.

The later city of Puerto Barrios lies here.