Lempira
The lempira (ISO 4217 code: HNL) is the currency of Honduras. The exchange rate was two lempiras to the U.S. dollar in the late 1980s (a twenty-cent coin is called "daime" as it used to be worth the same as a U.S. 10 cent coin or "dime"). By December 2004, the exchange rate had gone up to around 18.75 HNL to 1 USD.
The lempira is named after the cacique Lempira of the Lenca tribe, a native leader who fought the Spaniards. He is a national hero, and is honored on the 1 lempira bill (which is red) and on the 50 cent coin.
The capital of Gracias a Dios department, Puerto Lempira, is also named after him, as is the department of Lempira.
Current HNL exchange rates
AUD, CAD, EUR, GBP, INR, NZD, USD
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| Currencies of The Americas | |
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| North | Bermuda dollar | Canadian dollar | Danish krone (Greenland) | Euro (Saint-Pierre et Miquelon) | Mexican peso | US dollar |
| Central | Belize dollar | Costa Rican colón | Salvadoran colón | Guatemalan quetzal | Honduran lempira | Nicaraguan córdoba | Panamanian balboa |
| Caribbean | Aruban florin | Bahamian dollar | Barbadian dollar | Cayman dollar | Cuban peso | Dominican peso | East Caribbean dollar | Euro (Guadeloupe, Martinique) | Haitian gourde | Jamaican dollar | Netherlands Antilles florin | Trinidad and Tobago dollar |
| South | Argentine peso | Bolivian boliviano | Brazilian real | Chilean peso | Colombian peso | Euro (French Guiana) | Falkland pound | Guyanese dollar | Paraguayan guaraní | Peruvian nuevo sol | Suriname dollar | Uruguayan peso | Venezuelan bolívar
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