Nueva Arcadia

Nueva Arcadia is a municipality in the Honduran department of Copán.

Copán Department
Capital: Santa Rosa de Copán
Municipalities
  • Cabañas
  • Concepción
  • Copán Ruinas
  • Corquín
  • Cucuyagua
  • Dolores
  • Dulce Nombre
  • El Paraíso
  • Florida
  • La Jigua
  • La Unión
  • Nueva Arcadia
  • San Agustín
  • San Antonio
  • San Jerónimo
  • San José
  • San Juan de Opoa
  • San Nicolás
  • San Pedro de Copán
  • Santa Rita
  • Santa Rosa de Copán
  • Trinidad de Copán
  • Veracruz

Coordinates: 15°2′0″N 88°43′0″W / 15.033333°N 88.716667°W / 15.033333; -88.716667

Famous quotes containing the word arcadia:

    “Et in Arcadia ego.
    [I too am in Arcadia.]”
    —Anonymous, Anonymous.

    Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)