History of Honda

In 1620 he had a church built, but was in such bad shape that it could not reserve the Blessed Sacrament, and then by agreement between the President of the Audiencia and Archbishop took charge of the Parish to the Jesuit Fathers, who put Father de Cura Offit. This rebuilt the church walls and thatched roof, and then set up sheds and kilns for burning brick and lime and made ​​new reconstruction and stronger, and was called to the construction of the school building, of stone and mortar, with effective support neighbors. The Jesuit college was founded in 1622 .

Restored Spanish colonial house.

Finally, between centuries XVII and XIX , particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century , the town of Honda gets a boost from the urban point of view, were built in masonry, convents, schools, hospitals and churches, likewise are set in place commercial, brewery, liquor , export companies, banks, hotels and facilities as marketplace, river port, rail, bridges and airport reaffirm the presence of Honda as the "commercial emporium with a secular tradition where to stock traders came from the four corners of the country ",  and writeAlfonso Lopez . It is then the first river port of the country whose boom lasted until the early twentieth century .

On 16 June 1805 , Honda was hit by an earthquake that destroyed much of the city, colonial buildings, bridges and nearly split in two people, when they remember that memorable cataclysm old Honda in these stanzas of