La Pintada

Indigenous Chorti-Maya village
Honduras
November 2004

Adobe/thatch hut under construction	Adobe houses
More construction	Adobe/thatch house
Village school	Negotiations for corn husk dolls

LaPintada is an indigenous Chorti-Maya village. Residents are subsistence farmers and extra income comes from the sale of corn husk dolls. The village is about an 1 1/4 hour horseback ride from the Town of Copan Ruinas. There are sweeping panoramas of the valley below including the Mayan ruins.