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Festival de la Fresa La Esperanza in La Esperanza
Intibuca's cool highlands around La Esperanza produce roughly 80 percent of Honduras's strawberries, and each year growers and Taiwan-backed agricultural technicians stage the Feria Artesanal de la Fresa y la Papa. The market-day event brings fresh strawberries, potatoes, and derived preserves into the town center alongside processing demonstrations, showing the highland farming economy that sets this Lenca district apart.
The volcanic highlands surrounding La Esperanza climb high enough that frost touches some fields on January mornings, and that same cold has turned the district into the source of roughly 80 percent of Honduras's strawberry harvest.