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Feria Patronal Villanueva in Villanueva
Villanueva, a major sugar cane producing municipality in Honduras's Cortes department known as the city that sweetens Honduras, celebrates its Feria Agostina through August in honor of Saint Ramon Nonato, whose feast falls August 31. The month closes with the Gran Carnaval de la Cana, the Grand Carnival of Sugar Cane.
Villanueva, created as a municipality on August 28, 1871, and known nationally as the city that sweetens Honduras for its role as one of the country's largest sugar cane producers, celebrates its Feria Agostina through August in honor of Saint Ramon Nonato, with the patronal feast falling on August 31, just three days after the town's own founding anniversary.