El Tigre is a wonderful island in Honduran Pacific area. In the times of the failure of an attempt called Republic of Central America in 1898, it became an object of controversy between the three emerging republics: Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.

It was right between 1896 and 1898 when its most important municipality, Amapala, became the capital of short-term confederation of these republics aimed to increase their political strength.

You can walk around the island in a couple of hours. A couple of hours takes also to climb ... (more)