List of Honduras-related topics - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following is an outline of topics related to the Republic of Honduras.

Honduras

Honduras
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
Culture of Honduras
Culture of Honduras
The wealth of cultural expression in Honduras owes its origins primarily to being a part of Latin America but also to the multi-ethnic nature of the country. The population comprises 90% Mestizo, 7% Amerindian, 2% Black and 1% Caucasian...
Demographics of Honduras
Demographics of Honduras
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Honduras, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.- Population Breakdown :...
Departments of Honduras
Economy of Honduras
Economy of Honduras
The economy of Honduras is based mostly on agriculture, which accounted for 22% of its gross domestic product in 1999. Leading export coffee accounted for 22% of total Honduran export revenues. Bananas, formerly the country's second-largest export until being virtually wiped out by 1998's...
Geography of Honduras
Geography of Honduras
Honduras is a country situated in Central America. Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean. Guatemala lies to the west, Nicaragua south east and El Salvador to the south west. It is the second largest Central American republic. The triangular-shaped country has a total...
History of Honduras
History of Honduras
Honduras was already occupied by many indigenous peoples when the Spanish arrived in the 16th century. The western-central part of Honduras was inhabited by the Lencas, the central north coast by the Tol, the area east of Trujillo by the Pech and the Miskito and Sumo...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

country code for Honduras: HN
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest...

country code for Honduras: HND
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
ISO 3166-2:HN
ISO 3166-2:HN
ISO 3166-2:HN is the entry for Honduras in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Honduras, ISO 3166-2 codes are...

region codes for Honduras
Music of Honduras
Music of Honduras
The music of Honduras is very varied, Punta is the main "ritmo" de Honduras, to Caribbean music like salsa, merengue, reggae, and reggaeton all widely heard especially in the North, to Mexican rancheras heard in the interior, rural part of the country...
Rivers of Honduras
Rivers of Honduras
Rivers in Honduras is a list of the rivers in Honduras, including those it shares with neighbours. The most important river in Honduras is the Ulúa, which flows 400 kilometers to the Caribbean through the economically important Valle de Sula. Numerous other rivers drain the interior highlands and...
Human rights in Honduras
Human rights in Honduras
-pre-1979:During much of the twentieth century, Honduras did not have civilian governments. Military leaders frequently became presidents, either through elections or by coups d'état. General Tiburcio Carías Andino was elected in 1932, he later on called a constituent assembly that allowed him to...

Politics

Politics of Honduras
Politics of Honduras
Politics of Honduras takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Honduras is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in the...
President of Honduras
President of Honduras
This page lists the Presidents of Honduras.Colonial Honduras declared its independence from Spain on 15 September 1821. From 5 January 1822 to 1 July 1823, Honduras was part of the First Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide....
List of political parties in Honduras
Elections in Honduras
Elections in Honduras
Elections in Honduras gives information on elections and election results in Honduras.Honduras elects on national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The President of Honduras is elected for a four-year year term by the people by a simple majority of valid votes...
Liberalism in Honduras
Liberalism in Honduras
Liberalism in Honduras, as a form of Latin American liberalism, has old historical roots. Influenced by the French revolutionaries in the 1790s, the door was opened for ideas of positivism...
Communications in Honduras
Communications in Honduras
Telephones - main lines in use:400,000 land lines.Telephones - mobile cellular:1,114,427 Telephone system:...
Transportation in Honduras
Transportation in Honduras
Transport in Honduras refers to transport in Honduras, a country in Central America.- Railways : El Salvador - no Guatemala - none in use - break-of-gauge / Nicaragua - noFERISTSA Railway would connect Mexico with Panama via Honduras....
West-Wind (Honduran Presidential Plane)
Flag of Honduras
Flag of Honduras
This national flag of Honduras was adopted on March 7, 1866, based on the flag of the Federal Republic of Central America.In 1823 Honduras joined the United Provinces of Central America and adopted their flag. In 1866 it was amended; five cerulean stars were placed in the center to represent the 5...
Foreign relations of Honduras
Foreign relations of Honduras
Honduras is a member of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization , the Central American Parliament , the Central American Integration System , and the Central American Security Commission . During 1995-96, Honduras, a founding member of the United Nations, for the first time served as a...
2009 Honduran constitutional crisis
2009 Honduran constitutional crisis
The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis was a political dispute over plans to rewrite the Constitution of Honduras, which culminated in a coup d'état against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya by the Honduran military...

Military

Military of Honduras
Military of Honduras
-pre-1979:During the twentieth century, Honduran military leaders frequently became presidents, either through elections or by coups d'état. General Tiburcio Carías Andino was elected in 1932, he later on called a constituent assembly that allowed him to be reelected, and his rule became more...
2009 Honduran coup d'état
2009 Honduran constitutional crisis
The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis was a political dispute over plans to rewrite the Constitution of Honduras, which culminated in a coup d'état against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya by the Honduran military...
Football War
Football War
The Football War , also known as the Soccer War or 100 hour War, was a four-day war fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. It was caused by political conflicts between Hondurans and Salvadorans, namely issues concerning immigration from El Salvador to Honduras...

List of famous Hondurans

Ricardo Maduro
Ricardo Maduro
Ricardo Rodolfo Maduro Joest is a former President of Honduras and Bank of Honduras chairman. Maduro graduated from The Lawrenceville School and later Stanford University...

(born in Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

)
Aguas Santas Ocaña Navarro
Aguas Santas Ocaña Navarro
Aguas Santas Ocaña Navarro was the first lady of Honduras. Aguas Santas, her double given name, means "holy waters" in Spanish.-Marriage and first lady:...

(native Spaniard
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

, recently gained dual Honduran citizenship). Has lived in the country since October 2002.
Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo
Oscar Álvarez
Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga
Carlos Roberto Reina
Carlos Roberto Reina
Carlos Roberto Reina Idiáquez was a politician of the Liberal Party of Honduras, and President of Honduras from January 27, 1994 to January 27, 1998....
Elvia Alvarado
Elvia Alvarado
Elvia Alvarado is a Honduran human rights activist who has been involved in several peasant organizations.She became a social activist through the Catholic Church, and organized women in the city to become nurses to distribute food to malnourished children...
Ramón Amaya Amador
Ramón Amaya Amador
-Biography:Amaya was born in Olanchito in the department of Yoro. After being educated in La Ceiba he worked on the banana plantations along the Northern Caribbean coast of Honduras. He published his first work in 1939. He became a journalist in 1941 for El Atlántico , a La Ceiba newspaper. In...
Carlos Mencia
Carlos Mencia
Carlos Mencia , born Ned Arnel Mencia, is a Honduran-born American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race, culture, criminal justice, and social class...

(American Comedian raised in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

but born in San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula is a city in Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country, in the Valle de Sula , about 60 km south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean. With an estimated population of 638,259 people in the main municipality, and 802,598 in its metro area , it is the second...

)
Neida Sandoval (born in Minas de Oro
Minas de Oro
Minas de Oro is a municipality in the Honduran department of Comayagua.-Geography:Minas de Oro is located to the northeast of Comayagua, 150 km to the northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. It is surround by the mountains named Grande, El Cobre and El Peñón...

)
Hype Williams
Hype Williams
Harold "Hype" Williams , previously known as HYPE, is an American music video and film director of African-American and Honduran descent. His nickname "Hype" comes from his hyperactive nature as a child....

, Music Video and Film Director
José Zúñiga
Jose Zuniga
José Zúñiga is an American actor.Zúñiga was born in Honduras. He is best known for his roles in films such as Alive, Ransom, Con Air, Fresh, Crooklyn, Next Stop Wonderland and Twilight...

, Actor
Satcha Pretto
Satcha Pretto
Satcha Pretto is an Emmy award-winning Journalist and news co-anchor of the Univision Network's popular morning show Despierta America.-General information:...
Salvador Moncada
Salvador Moncada
Sir Salvador Enrique Moncada, FRS, FRCP, FRCS is a Honduran-British physician and pharmacologist. He is the husband of Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, who is a member of the Belgian Royal Family.-Background:...
America Ferrera
America Ferrera
America Georgina Ferrera is an American actress, best known for playing the lead role in the television comedy series Ugly Betty...

, American Actress

Cities and important towns and places

Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa , and commonly referred as Tegus , is the capital of Honduras and seat of government of the Republic, along with its twin sister Comayagüela. Founded on September 29, 1578 by the Spanish, it became the country's capital on October 30, 1880 under President Marco Aurelio Soto...

(Capital)
Chamelecón
Chamelecón
Chamelecón is a suburb of San Pedro Sula in Honduras.It came to world attention on 23 December 2004 when 28 people were murdered and another 28 injured while returning from the centre of San Pedro Sula by the MS-13 gang opposed to the restoration of the death penalty in Honduras. Many of the...
Choluteca
Choluteca, Choluteca
Choluteca is a municipality and the capital city of the Honduran department of the same name. Situated in southern Honduras between El Salvador and Nicaragua, the city is generally considered the regional center of southern Honduras and is a major transit point on the Pan-American Highway. It...
Comayagua
Comayagua
Comayagua is a city in Honduras, some 80 km northwest of Tegucigalpa on the highway to San Pedro Sula at an elevation of 594 meters above sea level. In 2003 the estimated population was 60,000 people. It is the capital of the Comayagua department of Honduras. The city is noted for its wealth...
Danlí
El Progreso
El Progreso
The municipality of El Progreso is located in the Honduran department of Yoro. Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport of San Pedro Sula is located west of the city. To the east of the city is the mountain range of Mico Quemado ....
Gracias
Gracias
Gracias is a small Honduran town/municipality that was founded in 1536, and has a population of approximately 25,000 people...
Guanaja
Guanaja
Guanaja is one of the Bay Islands of Honduras, and is in the Caribbean. It is about 70 km off the north coast of Honduras, and 12 km from the island of Roatan. One of the cays off Guanaja, also called Guanaja or Bonnaca or Low Cay , is near the main island, and contains most of the...
Juticalpa
La Ceiba
La Ceiba
La Ceiba is a port city on the northern coast of Honduras in Central America. It is located on the southern edge of the Caribbean, forming part of the south eastern boundary of the Gulf of Honduras...
La Esperanza
La Esperanza, Honduras
La Esperanza is the capital city and a municipality of the same name of the department of Intibucá, Honduras. The city of La Esperanza is merged indistinguishably with the city of Intibucá, the head of the neighboring municipality of Intibucá. Intibucá is the older of the two cities and was...
La Mosquitia
La Mosquitia
La Mosquitia refers to the northeastern part of Honduras along the Mosquito Coast. It is an underdeveloped region of tropical rainforest accessible primarily by water and air. Its population include indigenous groups such as the Miskito, the Pech, Rama, Sumo, and Tawakha. The Río Plátano Biosphere...
Nueva Ocotepeque
Nueva Ocotepeque
Nueva Ocotepeque is a city in south west Honduras. It is the capital city of the Ocotepeque department of Honduras.Nueva Ocotopeque was settled in 1935 after the site of the former town of Ocotepeque was destroyed by flooding.-Sources:...
Minas de Oro
Minas de Oro
Minas de Oro is a municipality in the Honduran department of Comayagua.-Geography:Minas de Oro is located to the northeast of Comayagua, 150 km to the northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. It is surround by the mountains named Grande, El Cobre and El Peñón...
Omoa
Omoa
Omoa is a town and a municipality in the Department of Cortés of the Central American country of Honduras. Omoa is located on a small bay of the same name 18 km. west of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea coast.- Geography :...
Puerto Castilla
Puerto Castilla
Puerto Castilla is a village in Honduras.This port city on the Caribbean Sea was the one-time site of the United Fruit Company's Castilla Division which specialized in the growth, cultivation and shipments of the Gros Michel banana...
Puerto Cortés
Puerto Cortés
-Geography:It is on the Caribbean Sea coast, north of San Pedro Sula and east of Omoa, at 15.85° N, 87.94° W. It has a natural bay.It is Honduras's main sea port and it is considered the most important seaport in Central America...
Puerto Lempira
Puerto Lempira
Puerto Lempira is the capital of the Gracias a Dios department in northeastern Honduras, located on the shores of the Caratasca Lagoon. Though it does not have paved roads, it is the largest town in the La Mosquitia region....
Roatán
Roatán
Roatán, located between the islands of Útila and Guanaja, is the largest of Honduras' Bay Islands. The island was formerly known as Ruatan and Rattan...
Sambo Creek
Sambo Creek
Sambo Creek is a traditional Garífuna village east of La Ceiba on the Caribbean Sea north coast of Honduras. An annual fair is held in June. Sambo Creek has the largest Garifuna population in Honduras and is considered to be a true Garifuna town....
San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula
San Pedro Sula is a city in Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country, in the Valle de Sula , about 60 km south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean. With an estimated population of 638,259 people in the main municipality, and 802,598 in its metro area , it is the second...
Santa Rosa de Copán
Santa Rosa de Copán
Santa Rosa de Copán is the departmental capital of the Honduran department of Copán. It is set at an elevation of approximately above mean sea level....
Siguatepeque
Siguatepeque, Comayagua
Siguatepeque is a town and municipality in the Honduran department of Comayagua.Siguatepeque, located in the central mountains of Honduras is green and colourful, and can be described as a garden town. The region, with its rural flavour, is primarily dedicated to farm and forest enterprises...
Tela
Tela
Tela is a town in Honduras on the northern Caribbean coast. It is located in the department of Atlantida.-History:Tela was founded by the Spanish conquistador Cristóbal de Olid on 3 May 1524 near an indigenous town named Tehuacán, ruled by a cacique named Cucumba which had a very good source of...
Tocoa
Tocoa
Tocoa may refer to:* Tocoa, Colón, Honduras* Río Tocoa, in Honduras...
Trujillo

Football

Known as Soccer

Liga Profesional de Honduras
Hispano FC
Hispano FC
Hispano Fútbol Club is an Honduran football club based in Comayagua, Comayagua. The club currently plays in Liga de Ascenso de Honduras.-History:...
C.D. Platense
Universidad NAH
Municipal Valencia
C.D. Victoria
C.D. Vida
Liga de Ascenso Honduras
C.D. Arsenal
C.D. Arsenal
Arsenal is a Honduran football team based in Roatan, Honduras. It currently plays in Liga de Ascenso de Honduras in Zona Norte-Occidente Group A...
Social Sol
Social Sol
Social Sol es un equipo de Honduras con sede en la ciudad civica de Olanchito, Departamento de Yoro, actualmente reestructurado con jugadores de mucha experiencia....
Deportes Savio
Deportes Savio
Deportes Savio is an Honduran football club based in Santa Rosa de Copán, Copán. The team currently plays Liga Nacional de Honduras.-History:Deportes Savio was founded in 1964 as Atlético Lempira...
Atlético Olanchano
Atlético Olanchano
Atlético Olanchano is a Honduran football club based in Catacamas, Olancho. The club currently plays in Liga Nacional de Ascenso de Honduras.-History:...
Motagua Reservas
Juticalpa Tulin
Juticalpa Tulin
Juticalpa FC is a Honduran football club based on Juticalpa, Honduras.-National Level:*Liga de Ascenso de Honduras: 0...
Olimpia Reservas
Olimpia Reservas
Olimpia Reservas is an Honduran football club that plays in Liga de Ascenso the second division in Honduras football. It's based in Talanga, Honduras and they play in the municipal stadium. It is the reserve team of Club Deportivo Olimpia....
C.D. Federal
C.D. Federal
Federal is a football club based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.-National Level:*Liga Amateur de Honduras: 1 *Liga de Ascenso de Honduras: 2El federal tiene su inicio en casa de la Sra. Idilia Rubio en la colonia La Hoya de Tegucigalpa el 14 de agosto de 1,935-League performance:...
Honduras Salzburg
Honduras Salzburg
Honduras Salzburg is a Honduran football club based on El Progreso, Honduras.-National Level:*Liga Nacional de Ascenso de Honduras: 1-League performance:...
Honduras05-06apertura
Honduras04-05clausura
Honduras04-05apertura
Honduras03-04clausura
Honduras03-04apertura
Honduras 02-03 clausura
Edgar Álvarez
Edgar Álvarez
Edgard Anthony Álvarez Reyes is a Honduran footballer. He currently plays for Palermo. He can play anywhere on the right flank.-Career:...
Víctor Coello
Víctor Coello
Víctor Arturo Coello Paz is a Honduran footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Platense in the Liga Nacional de Honduras.- Marathón :...
Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano
Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano
Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano is a multi-purpose stadium in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. It is currently used mostly for football matches and also has facilities for athletics...
E.I.S.

Other geographic features

Bay Islands
Caribbean Sea
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean located in the tropics of the Western hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and southwest, to the north by the Greater Antilles, and to the east by the Lesser Antilles....
Gulf of Fonseca
Gulf of Fonseca
The Gulf of Fonseca , part of the Pacific Ocean, is a gulf in Central America, bordering El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.-History:Fonseca Bay was discovered in 1522 by Gil Gonzalez de Avila, and named by him after his patron, Archbishop Juan Fonseca, the implacable enemy of Columbus.In 1849, E. G...
Gulf of Honduras
Gulf of Honduras
The Gulf or Bay of Honduras is a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting the coasts of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. From north to south, it runs for approximately 200 km from Dangriga, Belize, to La Ceiba, Honduras....
Lake Yojoa
Lake Yojoa
Lake Yojoa is the largest lake in Honduras with a surface area of 285 square kilometers and an average depth of 15 meters . At an altitude of 700 meters , it lies in a depression formed by volcanoes...
Mosquito Coast
Mosquito Coast
The Caribbean Mosquito Coast historically consisted of an area along the Atlantic coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras, and part of the Western Caribbean Zone. It was named after the local Miskito Indians and long dominated by British interests...
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...

Administrative subdivisions

Atlántida (department)
Atlántida (department)
Atlántida is a department located on the north Caribbean shore of Honduras, Central America. The capital is the port city of La Ceiba.In the past decades the tourism took over to become the most important legitimate economic source for the coastal area. In 2005 it had an estimated population of...
Choluteca (department)
Choluteca (department)
Choluteca is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided. It is the southernmost department of Honduras, bordering the Gulf of Fonseca to the west and the Republic of Nicaragua to the east and south.The departmental capital is city of Choluteca...
Colón (department)
Colón (department)
Colón is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided. It was created in 1881. The departmental capital is Trujillo, and the other main city is Tocoa...
Comayagua (department)
Comayagua (department)
Comayagua is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.The departmental capital is Comayagua.The department covers a total surface area of 5,196...
Copán (department)
Copán (department)
Copán is one of the departments in the western part of Honduras. The departmental capital is the town of Santa Rosa de Copán. The department is well-known for its tobacco and fine cigars....
Cortés (department)
Cortés (department)
Cortés is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided. The department covers a total surface area of 3,954 km² and, in 2005, had an estimated population of 1,365,497 people, making it the most populous department in Honduras...
El Paraíso (department)
El Paraíso (department)
El Paraíso is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.Formed in 1878 from part of Tegucigalpa Department.The departmental capital is Yuscarán....
Francisco Morazán (department)
Francisco Morazán (department)
Francisco Morazán is one of the departments of Honduras.It is located in the central part of the nation. The departmental capital is Tegucigalpa, which is also Honduras's national capital. Until 1943 it was known as Tegucigalpa department...
Gracias a Dios (department)
Gracias a Dios (department)
Gracias a Dios is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided. The departmental capital is Puerto Lempira; until 1975 it was Brus Laguna...
Intibucá (department)
Intibucá (department)
Intibucá is a department in Honduras.The departmental capital is the town of La Esperanza.Intibucá department covers a total surface area of 3,072 km² and, in2005, had a population of about 202,140 people....
Islas de la Bahía (department)
Bay Islands (department)
Islas de la Bahía is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided. The departmental capital is Roatan, on the island of Roatán....
La Paz (Honduran department)
La Paz (Honduran department)
La Paz is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.The departmental capital is the city of La Paz.The department covers a total surface area of 2,331...
Lempira (department)
Lempira (department)
Lempira is one of the 18 departments of Honduras Central America, located in the western part of the country with borders with El Salvador. It was named Gracias department until 1943, and the departmental capital is Gracias....
Ocotepeque (department)
Ocotepeque (department)
Ocotepeque is one of the 18 departments of Honduras, Central America, located in the West and bordering both El Salvador and Guatemala. It was formed in 1906 from part of Copán department...
Olancho (department)
Olancho (department)
Olancho is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided. It is the largest of all the departments, and Hondurans frequently point out that the department is larger than the neighboring Republic of El Salvador...
Santa Bárbara (department)
Santa Bárbara (department)
Santa Bárbara is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.The departmental capital is Santa Bárbara.The department covers a total surface area of 5,115...
Valle (department)
Valle (department)
Valle is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.The departmental capital is Nacaome. The department faces the Gulf of Fonseca and contains mangrove swamps; inland, it is very hot and dry....
Yoro (department)
Yoro (department)
Yoro is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.The department contains rich agricultural lands, concentrated mainly on the valley of the Aguan River and the Sula Valley, on opposite ends....

Other

Adjacent countries:

.hn
.hn
.hn is the Internet country code top-level domain for Honduras.-Second-Level Domain Names:* .net.hn* .org.hn* .edu.hn* .gob.hn* .com.hn-External links:* *...

Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

country code top-level domain
Country code top-level domain
A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....

for Honduras
Football War
Football War
The Football War , also known as the Soccer War or 100 hour War, was a four-day war fought by El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. It was caused by political conflicts between Hondurans and Salvadorans, namely issues concerning immigration from El Salvador to Honduras...
Contras
Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch was the most powerful hurricane and the most destructive of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph . The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the season. Along with Hurricane Georges, Mitch...
Virgin of Suyapa
Virgin of Suyapa
The Virgin of Suyapa is an 18th-century statue of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ. The statue, also known as Our Lady of Suyapa , is perhaps Honduras' most popular religious image, and the focus of an extensive pilgrimage...
United Provinces of Central America

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.