Significant1524 – 1539 · 15 years

Spanish conquest of Honduras

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Honduras · Naco · Comayagua

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

The Spanish conquest of Honduras (1524-1539) involved rival conquistador factions and fierce indigenous resistance, culminating in the Lenca uprising led by the chief Lempira before colonial control was established.

Belligerents2

Spanish Empire
Lenca and Maya peoples

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Cerquin1539

Sources

Wikipedia: Spanish conquest of Honduras
Newson, The Cost of Conquest
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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