Honduras en la ruta trans-ístmica (Análisis de la propuesta de Juan García de Hermosilla de mudar Nombre de Dios por Puerto Caballos) 1556-1570,

Abstract

This essay examines several initiatives to join through a road the Pacific cost and the Caribbean sea in the period of 1525 and 1570. At that time the main goal of the entrepreneurs who present them to the Spanish Crown was to widen and profit from the trade that the discovery and conquest ofPeru had sparked using Honduras as the trams Itsmic highway, it highlights the different interests that came into rivalry and the conflicts arisen with other geographical regions such as Nombre de Dios in Panama. The article will show the culprits of the failures to follow on the proposed enterprises and how they ultimately affected the fate of the other Centro American regions.