HONDA or SAN BARTOLOME DE HONDA, a town of the department of Tolima, Colombia, on the west bank of the Magdalena river, 58o m. above its mouth. Pop. (1928) 12,622. It is about 65o ft. above sea-level and overlooks the rapids of the Magdalena, shut in closely by spurs of the Eastern and Cen tral Cordilleras. The climate is hot and damp and the temperature frequently rises to 102° F in the shade. Honda dates back to the beginning of the 17th century, and has been one of the important centres of traffic in South America for 30o years. There is a sus pension bridge across the Magdalena at the head of the rapids. A railway 18 m. long connects with the landing place of La Dorada, or Las Yeguas, where the steamers of the lower Magdalena dis charge and receive their cargoes and with Beltran 34 m. above, where navigation of the upper river begins. Up to 1908 the greater part of the traffic for Bogota crossed the river at this point, and was carried on mule-back over the old camino real, which was at best only a rough bridle-path ; now the trans-ship ment is made to smaller steamboats on the upper river for carriage to Girardot, 93 m. distant, from which place a railway runs to the Bogota plateau. Honda was nearly destroyed by an earthquake in 18o8.