Lempira (Lenca ruler) Honduran historian Mario Felipe Martínez Castillo discovered a very different account of Lempira in a document entitled "Méritos y Servicios: Rodrigo Ruiz, Nueva España", written in 1558 in Mexico City. The manuscript is located in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain. That document, Patronato 69 R.5, tells the story of Rodrigo Ruiz and his service in the conquest of Honduras under Francisco Montejo. It includes his account of killing Lempira. The document is in the form of a series of questions, answered by witnesses to the services which Rodrigo Ruiz gave to the Spanish King. It is his
Puerto Lempira population as of 2001 was 4,012. Puerto Lempira is sister city to Plattsburgh, New York, US, and has been since 2011. The city is served by Puerto Lempira Airport, which operates several flights a week on a regular schedule. Like most of the Caribbean side of Central America, Puerto Lempira has a very hot, humid and rainy tropical rainforest climate (Köppen "Af"). Its driest month of March, when the relentlessly wet trade winds are weakest, is only marginally rainy enough to avoid a tropical monsoon classification; however, between June and December monthly rainfall consistently averages above or near . Puerto