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title: Tegucigalpa
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During the short-lived Constitution of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Republic_of_Central_America[Republic of Central America] of 1821, Tegucigalpa served as a Federal District and capital of then-newly formed as one nation: the states of *El Salvador*, *Guatemala* and *Honduras*.

== Aftermath

After this failed attempt to maintain a Central American republic, Honduras returned to become an individual sovereign nation and on January 30, 1937, Article 179 of the 1936 Honduran Constitution was reformed under Decree 53 to established Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela as a Central District.