vicinity had Catholic religious missions, and there is still a farm named
"The Mission" to 3 miles north. For
lack of roads take long isolated until 1915 "report a site" exiled
Honduran Colonel Portillo Sunday Lainez, and made a farm called "Las
Mercedes", in honor of his wife Mercedes Arauz Cantarero of Matagalpa. In 1918 Sunday Portillo, Conservative
Senator, introduced the motion before the Congress of the Republic to be
declared Matiguas people leaving to belong to the jurisdiction of Far. Other citizens who had investments in
that town were: Abel Flores, Alfredo Herrera, Joaquin Reyes and Domingo Calero. Matiguas About the Rio Grande is a
site called "Paso Real" as far as the Spanish arrived poe the west,
to the east mintras ndios chief-ulvas arrived in canoes and dories board to do
trade with Ladinos, the chief were coming among other things to buy dogs, do
not know for what purpose. The
People of Matiguas was elevated to city status in 1999.
