San Rafael, Lempira San Rafael, Lempira San Rafael is a municipality in the Honduran department of Lempira. It is one of the farthest municipalities of the Lempira department of Honduras. The best way to get to the municipality capital is via Santa Bárbara department, passing by El Nispero and San Jeronimo municipalities of this department. In the census of 1887 it appears with the name of "El Conal" village, of La Iguala municipality, and until 17 July 1900 it was granted the category of municipality, in the administration of President Terencio Sierra. To get to the municipality capital it is necessary to go
Lempira (Lenca ruler) Governor, Francisco de Montejo, attacked Lempira at the Peñol de Cerquín, near Gracias Department. According to Herrera, Lempira retreated to a fortified hill top where he resisted the Spaniards for many months. Finally, the Spaniards lured him out to talk, and a concealed Spanish soldier with an arquebus shot and killed him. On seeing this, Herrera reports, the Lenca surrendered. This is essentially the official version that is taught to Honduran children in school. The Spanish then ate his corpse in disrespect, many of lempiras men fought the Spanish and taking a victory for their leader. In the 1980s, the