Puerto Lempira Puerto Lempira Puerto Lempira is the capital of the Gracias a Dios department in northeastern Honduras, located on the shores of the Caratasca Lagoon. Though it does not have paved roads, it is the largest town in the La Mosquitia region. The town is named for the 16th century leader of the indigenous Lenca peoples, Lempira, who directed an ultimately unsuccessful resistance against the Spanish "conquistador" forces in the 1530s. Puerto Lempira became the departmental capital in 1975, prior to which it was Brus Laguna. In the 1980s, the town became a centre for CIA operations against the Sandinistas. Its
Monetary Authority of Macao Monetary Authority of Macao The Monetary Authority of Macao also known as Monetary Authority of Macau (, abbr. as AMCM; ) is the central bank of Macau. The regulatory institution established on December 20, 1999, upon the transfer of the sovereignty of Macau from Portugal to the People's Republic of China as the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR). It was formerly known as the "Monetary and Foreign Exchange Authority of Macao" (, abbr. as AMCM), which was created on July 1, 1989. According to decree-law no. 14/96/M of 11 March, the Monetary Authority of Macao carries the following major statutory