{"id":44683,"count":1,"description":"Hondo is a city in and the county seat of Medina County, Texas, United States. According to the 2000 Census, the population was 7,897. It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.\nHondo is located at 29\u00b020\u203249\u2033N 99\u00b08\u203244\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff29.34694\u00b0N 99.14556\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 29.34694; -99.14556 (29.346838, -99.145543), approximately 40 miles (64\u00a0km) west of San Antonio.\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.6 square miles (25\u00a0km), of which, 9.6 square miles (25\u00a0km) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10\u00a0km) of it (0.21%) is water.\nOriginal settlers in the area came from Alsace-Lorraine, Germany, Belgium and Mexico. Many family-owned businesses, farms and ranches are still owned by descendants of the original families.\nThe area, which is now Medina County, was first explored by Cabeza de Vaca in 1519, 27 years after Columbus arrived in the new world.\nThe city of Hondo was first settled in 1881 and incorporated in 1942. The U.S. Army built an air field in...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/hondo\/","name":"Hondo","slug":"hondo","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/44683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=44683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}