La Ceiba

CAPITAL CITY OF Honduras: Tegucigalpa
LANGUAGE OF Honduras: Spanish
CURRENCY OF Honduras: lempira (HNL)
COMMENTS ABOUT Honduras:
Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America.
Cities : Tegucigalpa (capital), La Ceiba, Comayagua, Gracias, Omoa, Puerto Cortes, Puerto Lempira, San Lorenzo, Tela, Trujillo, San Pedro Sula, Santa Rosa de Copan
Best Places : Bay Islands, Utila, Roatán, Guanaja, Hog Islands, Copán, ruins of the Maya civilization, Lake Yojoa -
Electricity : 110V/60Hz (two-prong North American plug)
Calling Code : +504
Time Zone : UTC -6
Part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and one-half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Marxist Nicaraguan Government and an ally to Salvadoran Government forces fighting against leftist guerrillas. The country was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which killed about 5,600 people and caused approximately $2 billion in damage.
CLIMATE OF Honduras: subtropical in lowlands, temperate in mountains
RELIGION OF Honduras: Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant minority
POPULATION OF Honduras: 6,823,568
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2004 est.)>>>>>
ECONOMY OVERVIEW OF Honduras:

Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere with an extraordinarily unequal distribution of income and massive unemployment, is banking on expanded trade privileges under the Enhanced Caribbean Basin Initiative and on debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. While the country has met most of its macroeconomic targets, it has failed to meet the IMF's goals to liberalize its energy and telecommunications sectors. Growth remains dependent on the status of the US economy, its major trading partner, on commodity prices, particularly coffee, and on reduction of the high crime rate.