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Erandique, better known as Lempira, was a Lenca indigenous leader in Honduras who fought against the Spaniards in the 1530s. Lempira organized the resistance against the Spanish conquest and gathered an army of nearly 30,000 soldiers. Although the Spaniards could not defeat him before 1537, Lempira died that year, and his death consolidated Spanish dominance in the region. Honduras commemorates Lempira as its national hero and named the department of L.
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