Yoro

Yoro lies in the mountainous interior of northern Honduras, south of the Aguán valley. Its history reaches back to Indigenous communities brought under Spanish colonial rule. A record of 1582 lists sixteen tribute payers at Yoro in the encomienda of Hernando Matute. By the beginning of the nineteenth century the inhabitants recorded in the district included Tolupan and Pech people as well as people of African descent, reflecting the varied populations of the northern Honduran interior.