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Honduras, country of Central America, between Guatemala and El Salvador to the west and Nicaragua to the south and east. The Caribbean Sea washes its northern coast and the Pacific Ocean its short southern coast. Its area includes the Bay Islands offshore in the Caribbean. The capital is Tegucigalpa (with Comayaguela).
Honduras. Central America. White beaches fringed by the world's second-largest barrier reef, jungle-covered mountains cut by raftable white-water rivers and home to an astounding number of bird species, exquisite Maya ruins, colonial, cobblestone villages, fresh seafood grilled on the beachâ ¦Yes, all this is found in Honduras, a country ...
Mar 31, 2023 · Honduras country profile. 31 March 2023. Honduras has a long history of military rule, corruption, poverty and crime which have left it one of the least developed and most unstable countries in ...
Archaeology has demonstrated that Honduras has a multi-ethnic prehistory. An important part of that prehistory was the Mayan presence around Copán in western Honduras near the Guatemalan border, a major Mayan city that began to flourish around 150 A.D. but reached its zenith in the Late Classic period (700–850 A.D.). It has left behind many carved inscriptions and stelae.
Early history. Honduras. When the Spanish arrived to colonize Honduras, the land was occupied by a variety of Indigenous peoples, the most advanced of whom were the Maya. Gold stimulated Spanish conquest of the area early in the 16th century, and the Honduran gold-mining town of Gracias became the capital of Spanish Central America (the ...
Dec 22, 2021 · Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Latin America and has one of the world's highest murder rates. More than half of the population lives in poverty and per capita income is one of the lowest in the region. Poverty rates are higher among rural and indigenous people and in the south, west, and along the eastern border than in the north ...
Background. Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. Honduras has only a short Pacific coast but a long Caribbean shoreline, including the virtually uninhabited eastern ...
