When Santiago Arnulfo Contreras Romero was born on 25 July 1954, in Jutiapa, Atlántida, Honduras, his father, Jose Rosa Contreras Romero, was 36 and his mother, Paula De Jesus Pavon Romero, was 29. He died on 11 May 2009, in his hometown, at the age of 54.
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Brief but costly war with El Salvador over heavy immigration and disputed border.
Colonel Juan Alberto Melgar Castro take power.
Melgar ousted in coup led by General Policarpo Paz Garcia.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Jesus, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Miguel, Francisco, Guadalupe, Roberto, Mario, Pedro. Portuguese Duarte, Ligia, Paulo, Wenceslao.
Spanish: habitational name from Conteraras, a place in the province of Burgos, named from Late Latin contraria ‘surrounding area, region’ (from the preposition contra ‘opposite, against, hard by’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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