In the pre-Hispanic era the Honduras that we know today did not exist; it only emerged in the first decades of the arrival of the Spanish explorers, conquistadores and colonizers. It was from these moments that people began to speak of Higueras, Cabo de Honduras, Gobernacion de Honduras, Provincia de Honduras and at the end of the Republican era by decree, just Honduras.
We also find toponyms in the reports known as " Reports by the Gobernors of Honduras during the 16th century", names of villages, cities, Indian villages, such as: Santa Maria de Comayagua, San Juan de Puerto Caballos, Gracias a Dios, Jerez de la Frontera de Choluteca, San Miguel de Heredia de Tegucigalpa; cities, perhaps not as such, Trujillo, San Pedro, San Jorge del Valle de Olancho can be mentioned; as well as Indian villages which the majority are, and among which are: San Manuel de Colohete, San Matias de La Campa, San Gaspar de Taulabe, San Miguel de Quezailica, San Antonio de Liure, San Jose de Nacaome; mining settlements such as: San Jose de Yuscaran, San Juan de Ojojona, Santa Lucia, among others.
Cases of special interest are the toponyms that evoke the two historical periods of Honduras: pre-Hispanic and colonial, with the name of a saint, the pre-Hispanic with its native place name, with the later predominating in the pronunciation of the population: Comayagua, Olancho, Choluteca, Amapala, Marcala, Danli, etc.
