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  Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Honduras is a country in northern Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the south west El Salvador, to the south east by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
Honduras became a state in the United Provinces of Central America in 1821, and an independent republic with the demise of the union in 1840.
The population of Honduras is predominantly of Mestizo descent and Roman Catholic faith.
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 Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republic of Honduras is an independent country in western Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the south west El Salvador, to the south east by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean, to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea on the north coast and the Pacific Ocean on the south through the Gulf of Fonseca.
Asians in Honduras are mostly of Chinese and Japanese descent.
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 Honduras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Honduras is a nation of northern Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala and El Salvador, to the south by Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
The nation of Belize (formerly "British Honduras") is some 75 km away across the Bay of Honduras at the two nation's closest points.
Part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became a state of the nation of Central America in 1821, and became an independent republic at the demise of the union in 1840.
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 MapZones.com : Honduras Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Honduras, republic in Central America, bounded on the north and east by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by Nicaragua, on the south-west by the Pacific Ocean and El Salvador, and on the west by Guatemala.
Western Honduras was at the southeastern edge of the great Maya civilization during the 1st millennium ad, and the ruins at Copán attest to the advanced stage of the country’s population.
Honduras, with its capital at Comayagua and agriculture the base of its economy, was a province of that kingdom (audiencia) within the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
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 Honduras - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Honduras is a country in northern Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala and El Salvador, to the south by Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
Part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became a state in the United Provinces of Central America in 1821, and became an independent republic at the demise of the union in 1840.
Honduras spent the year 1999 primarily recovering from Hurricane Mitch, which killed more than 5,000 people and caused about US$3 billion in damage.
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 News Archive - Honduras
In Honduras two areas are heavily affected by the drought; firstly, the south of the Francisco Morazán Department, the departments of Valle and Choluteca and the south of the Department El Paraíso and secondly part of the northern areas of the departments of El Paraíso and Francisco Morazán and the Department of Comayagua.
As a consequence, 16% of the total number of births correspond to teenage mothers in a country with 6 million inhabitants--where the average age of half of the population is 18 years and where lack of sexual education is one of the major factors contributing to HIV/AIDS.
In addition, World Vision Honduras supports communities and projects to organise their own focus groups to promote use of participatory and integral education methodologies that contribute to improving the quality of life of young Hondurans.
www.wvi.org /wvi/archives/lacro/honduras.htm   (1911 words)

  
 DEA Resources, For Law Enforcement Officers, Intelligence Reports, Honduras Country Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Honduras, located in Central America between Nicaragua to the south and Guatemala and El Salvador to the west, is a transit country for the movement of cocaine from South America to the United States.
Small plots of illegally grown cannabis are found throughout Honduras, primarily in isolated fields concealed in rugged mountainous terrain in the Departments of Yoro and Francisco Morazan in Central Honduras; Colon along the Caribbean coast; Olancho in eastern Honduras; and in the western Departments of Copan and Santa Barbara.
However, seizures in 2000 throughout Honduras and the rest of Central America indicated that drug traffickers using overland vehicles are moving cocaine in shipments that range between 100 kilograms and 200 kilograms, instead of the multiton quantities that passed through the region in tractor-trailers during 1997 and 1998.
www.usdoj.gov /dea/pubs/intel/01006/01006.html   (2600 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Honduras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Main article: Economy of Honduras Honduras is one of the poorest and least developed countries in Latin America.
Honduras Honduras History of Honduras Geography of Honduras Economy of Honduras Departments of Honduras Demographics of Honduras Culture of Honduras Music of Honduras Politics Politics of Honduras President of Honduras List of political parties in Honduras Elections in Honduras Liberalism in Honduras Communications in Honduras Transportation in Honduras Military of...
Honduras This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Honduras   (4651 words)

  
 Atlas - Honduras Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The question for Honduras in the future is how, given the nation's limited resources, to deal with severe poverty and to avoid the repression and violence that poverty often engenders.
Honduras is a poor nation, and the majority of Hondurans work under extremely difficult conditions.
Although Honduras, with 46 inhabitants per square kilometer, has a comparatively low population density, particularly when compared to its neighbors to the west, uneven distribution has contributed to overpopulation in certain areas.The nation's second-largest and least-populated department, Gracias a Dios, had a population density of only 2.5 inhabitants per square kilometer in 1989.
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 Honduras - Wikipedia
Honduras is a large nation of northern Central America.
Economy - overview: Honduras spent 1999 primarily recovering from Hurricane Mitch, which killed more than 5,000 people and caused about $3 billion in damage.
Honduras may also get relief from its $4.4 billion external debt under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative.
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 Why War? Keywords: Honduras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Almost on cue tiny Honduras announced it would be pulling its 370 troops from Iraq "in the shortest po...
...ed diplomat who attracted considerable controversy as the US ambassador to Honduras in the early Eighties when he was instrumental in assisting the Contras ov...
Ewing took time off to visit Honduras where he met a woman from Sweden, and a decade ago moved with her back to...
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 Honduras
Honduras is a independent country in northern Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the south west El Salvador, to the south east by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean, to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
Even though many resources were invested in providing an improved democratic process, we've seen this effort negated when politicians scratched the names of already elected individuals to nominate their own candidates who were not freely elected.
The word is derived from the last name of Honduran General Florencio Xatruch, who led Honduran armed forces in defense of Honduran territories in 1857 against an attempted invasion led by North American pirate William Walker.
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 Tips for International Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Honduras is linked to the rest of the world by telephone and the internet.
Honduras requires international travelers to hold a passport, generally with an expiration date of six months or more after the anticipated date of departure.
Honduras generates electricity at 110 volts, 60 cycles, which is the same as household current in the U.S. On Utila, the electrical service is supplied by diesel generators from 6:00 a.m.
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 Geography (from Honduras) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Throughout 2000 Honduras continued to rebuild from the destruction caused by Hurricane Mitch in October 1998.
The Republic of Honduras occupies a prominent pivotal position in the seven-country Central America land bridge that connects North and South America.
Stretching 175 miles (282 kilometers) across the isthmus from the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific Ocean, Honduras borders Guatemala on the northwest, El Salvador on the southwest, and Nicaragua on the...
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=129428   (846 words)

  
 Honduras - Gurupedia
Honduras is a nation of northern Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala and
El Salvador, to the south by Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea.
During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Nicaraguan government and an ally to
www.gurupedia.com /h/ho/honduras.htm   (278 words)

  
 Geography of Fishing in British Honduras and Adjacent Coastal Waters, Belize History- History of Ambergris Caye, Belize
British Honduras is a small country of approximately 22, 600 square kilometers, located on the western coast of the Caribbean Sea.
All of the coastline of British Honduras, its offshore islands, that portion of the Bahia de Chetumal northward to the fishing village of Calderitas, and the Bay Islands of Honduras, comprise the study area shown on Map 1.
As less prosperous members of the community, they have been forced out of the more desirable central sector near the harbour where their boats are anchored, and have become dispersed around the fringes of the town in areas that have only recently been reclaimed from mangrove swamp.
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 Communications Of Honduras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
If you would like to use this flag of Honduras or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
If you would like to use this map of Honduras or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
If you would like to use this information for Honduras or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/honduras_country_communications.shtml   (199 words)

  
 Honduras Activities
PHRplus contributes policy and system strengthening support to complement major efforts already underway in Honduras to reform health care policy and improve the delivery of primary health services, especially priority services such as reproductive health and child survival.
Communications: PHRplus/Honduras has identified and disseminated best practices on successful reform experiences; implemented a Communication Strategy to inform Health Sector Reform Dialogue; and collaborated with the government in planning for health projects within the National Poverty Reduction Strategy.
The Santa Rita community is also willing to establish a new user fee model that will allow their local clinic to commence operations.
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 Honduras telephone and Honduras cellphone information
When calling between cities within Honduras, there is no Domestic Access Code prefix; simply dial the subscriber number regardless of the origin or destination of the call.
Yes, if your home country service provider has a roaming agreement with a carrier in Honduras and your phone is compatible; check with your home country service provider on these two issues before you leave.
Honduras currently does not have any GSM cell phone networks, and therefore the cell phones do not use SIM cards.
www.honduras-information.hotelhonduras.com /Honduras-telephones-cellphones-callingcard.htm   (1315 words)

  
 Honduras This Week Travel and Tourism
Honduras raked in $165 million, a 27 percent increase and holding up the rear Nicaragua, with $113 million, a 21.6 percent increase.
The penetration of cellular communications in Honduras with a population of 6 million is less than 1 percent.
Honduras would be well advised to heed the lesson here to open up the wireless telecom sector to additional players -- more competition will lead to lower prices to the consumer and more consumers will purchase cell phone service.
www.marrder.com /htw/jun2000/travel.htm   (4757 words)

  
 History (from Honduras) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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It has an area of 43,277 square miles (112,088 square km), including the offshore Caribbean department of the Bay Islands.
A republic of Central America, Honduras has coastlines on the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
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 Honduras
Honduras, in the north-central part of Central America, has a Caribbean as well as a Pacific coastline.
During the first millennium, Honduras was inhabited by the Maya.
Honduras, with four other Central American nations, declared its independence from Spain in 1821 to form a federation of Central American states.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107616.html   (568 words)

  
 Morazán, Francisco on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Foreign Military Men to Be Trained in Honduras.
Support discriminated transvestite and female sex workers in Honduras.
Non-farm income and employment in rural Honduras: assessing the role of locational factors.
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 Communications in Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Television broadcast stations: 11 (most of these stations are based in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula; there are also 17 repeaters) (1997)
Country code (Top-level domain): HN See also : Honduras
This page was last modified 17:04, 28 June 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Communications_in_Honduras   (127 words)

  
 M2 Presswire : Hondutel selects Lucent Technologies to expand its network and increase access to communications ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
M2 Presswire : Hondutel selects Lucent Technologies to expand its network and increase access to communications services in Honduras; Project is part of the "Telephony for All - Modernization for Honduras" plan.
Hondutel selects Lucent Technologies to expand its network and increase access to communications services in Honduras; Project is part of the "Telephony for All - Modernization for Honduras" plan.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) today announced that it has signed a $4.3 million contract with Hondutel, a leading provider of communication services in Honduras, to expand Hondutel's wireline network and help extend access to communications services to people throughout the country.
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 Communications - Tropical Island, Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras
The International Telephone Country code for Honduras is 504.
There are many Internet Cafes on the island in addition to several Hotels and some of the Dive Shops which offer internet access services for the benefit of their guests.
See our Communications page for more details on Communications businesses in Utila.
www.aboututila.com /TouristInfo/Comms.htm   (349 words)

  
 Introduction   Geography   People   Government   Economy   ...
Part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821.
The country was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which killed about 5,600 people and caused approximately $2 billion in damage.
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.
www.hondurasembassy.com /honduras.htm   (958 words)

  
 Research and Markets - Market Research Reports - Communications Markets in Honduras - Printer Friendly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Honduras has made great strides toward modernizing and expanding its telecommunications infrastructure in the past year.
Nevertheless, Honduras remains one of the least developed telecommunications markets in Latin America with important potential for future expansion.
This 21-page report takes a comprehensive look at the Honduran market, covering immediate issues facing the market, in the context of the political, economic, regulatory, and competitive environments.
www.researchandmarkets.com /reports/4800/4800.htm   (259 words)

  
 Honduras, Map and Flag
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 almost $1 billion in damage.
Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere with an extraordinarily unequal distribution of income, is banking on expanded trade privileges under the Enhanced Caribbean Basin Initiative and on debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative.
www.greatestcities.com /Central_America/Honduras.html   (1020 words)

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