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Festival Lenca La Esperanza in La Esperanza
La Esperanza's Festival Nacional del Choro y el Vino, spanning Intibucá and Yamaranguila as well, celebrates the region's rare wild choro mushroom and highland fruit wines with tastings, a Lenca artisan fair, a fire parade called the Desfile del Fuego, and a national folkloric dance festival in Honduras's cool Intibucá highlands.
La Esperanza, the Intibucá department capital and one of Honduras's highest, coolest towns, hosts the Festival Nacional del Choro y el Vino each year, organized by the Fundación Intibucana de Desarrollo with support from the Instituto Hondureño de Turismo, in a celebration that has run for close to two decades and now spans the municipalities of La Esperanza, Intibucá and Yamaranguila together.