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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 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 largest department by surface area is Olancho department and by population is Francisco Morazán department and the smallest by both surface area and population is the Islas de la Bahía department.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Honduras (1647 words)

	Encyclopedia: Departments of Honduras
		Omoa is a town in the Cortés department of Honduras, on the Caribbean Sea coast, to the west of Puerto Cortés.
		Puerto Lempira is the capital of the Gracias a Dios department of Honduras.
		Juticalpa is the capital of Olancho Department in Honduras.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Departments-of-Honduras (1104 words)

	Honduras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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 borders the Caribbean Sea with its north coast and the Pacific Ocean south, by the Gulf of Fonseca.
		Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the American hemisphere, with GDP per capita at $US2050 per year (1999)..
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Honduras (782 words)

	Honduras - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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.
		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.
		The population of Honduras is predominantly of Mestizo descent and Roman Catholic faith.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Honduras (344 words)

	Honduras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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.
		During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Nicaraguan government and an ally to Salvadoran government forces fighting against leftist guerrillas.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/h/ho/honduras.html (311 words)

	HONDURAS FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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 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 largest department by surface area is Olancho_department and by population is Francisco_MorazÃ¡n_department and the smallest by both surface area and population is the Islas_de_la_BahÃa_department.
	www.igopay.com /Honduras (1485 words)

	Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A department is a part of a larger organization with a specific responsibility.
		"Department" is a term used by the US Army, mostly prior to World War I.
		A naval Department is a section devoted to one of several major tasks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Department (183 words)

	Geography of Honduras - Location and Boundaries, Boundary Disputes, Climate, Hydrography
		Honduras, located at the widest part of the isthmus of Central America, is the second largest Central American republic.
		The smallest physiographic region of Honduras, the Pacific lowlands, is a strip of land averaging twenty-five kilometers wide on the north shore of the Golfo de Fonseca.
		Honduras lies within the hurricane belt, and the Caribbean coast is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes or tropical storms that travel inland from the Caribbean.
	worldfacts.us /Honduras-geography.htm (2182 words)

	Honduras (07/05)
		Honduras is a strong proponent of Central American cooperation and integration, and continues to work towards the implementation of a regional customs union, which would ease border controls and tariffs among Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.
		Honduras and El Salvador maintain normal diplomatic and trade relations; however, they continue to disagree over the status of their maritime borders in the Gulf of Fonseca.
		Honduras continues to participate in the UN observer mission in the Western Sahara, contributed troops for the reconstruction of Iraq, and remains interested in participating in other UN peacekeeping missions.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1922.htm (4947 words)

	Honduras Profile (8.2)
		Nestled among Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua, Honduras is a tropical paradise of rainforests, clear waters and fresh fruit.
		Tensions rose in 1906 between Honduras and Nicaragua over a stretch of land on the Mosquito Coast and worsened after Honduras and Colombia signed the Caribbean Sea Maritime Limits Treaty in 1986.
		As of October 29, 2004, Honduras is "mine-free" as declared by the government of Honduras.
	maic.jmu.edu /journal/8.2/profiles/honduras.htm (671 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)

	Honduras Departments
		I have found sources for the populations of the departments in the censuses of 1881, 1895, and 2001, and more details of nineteenth-century changes.
		Islas de la Bahía consists of islands in the Gulf of Honduras, of which the largest are Roatán, Guanaja, Utila, Barbareta; and, farther offshore, the Islas Santanilla.
		The capitals had the same names as their departments, except that Juticalpa was the capital of Olancho.
	www.statoids.com /uhn.html (588 words)

	Honduras This Week National
		The projects are located in the Departments of Olancho, Paraiso and Colon, the Municipality of Sonaguera, the Aguan River Valley, and areas of the Caribbean coast.
		According to COPINH, a popular organization with representation in five departments in Honduras, the Mirandas were taken into custody and tortured because they “would not abandon the land on which they were born,” and are loved and respected leaders of their community.
		They have requested that the Government of Honduras carry out all necessary investigations into the tortures, and request that their human rights as members of an indigenous group be respected.
	www.marrder.com /htw/2003may/national.htm (10071 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Honduras: Annual Report (Appeal No. 01.28/2001)
		Departments in the south and south west of the country continue to suffer the direct effects of a combination of lack of rainfall, a dramatic fall in the price of coffee and the difficult recovery following hurricane Mitch.
		Honduras faced an emergency situation in the latter half of 2001 as a result of drought.
		The department of organizational development of the Honduran Red Cross, the President of the National Society and members of the governing board of the Marcala branch, received a donation from the Japanese Embassy for the purchase of an ambulance to be used by this branch.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/6cc52d54e59b3a0bc1256bbb0049f914 (5008 words)

	Honduras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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.
		Christopher Columbus named the country "Honduras", Spanish for "depths", a reference to the deep waters off the northern coast.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Learning_Adventure/http@@/www.questconnect.org/ca_honduras.htm (786 words)

	Honduras
		In the background the farmer has planted a fence of pineapple and maize plants to prevent soil erosion caused by rain water running down slope.
		Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Americas.
		Almost 75 percent of its rural population live in poverty, and nine out of ten rural households headed by women are affected by poverty.
	www.ifad.org /media/success/honduras.htm (865 words)

	May/June 2003: Honduras - Government creates commission to investigate murders of children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The killing of children and youths has become one of Honduras' foremost human rights challenges, and the lack of serious response from authorities is strengthening a climate of impunity which has marked Honduras' human rights record for decades.
		Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere.
		By all accounts, Honduras is one of the least prepared to enter into such an alliance, and many fear, with reason, that the country's economy will simply be swallowed up by the new free trade regimen.
	www.rtfcam.org /report/volume_23/No_2/article_5.htm (1356 words)

	Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		United States, Switzerland), department is a term used instead of ministry to define a specific sector of the federal government.
		Department (US Army), is a term used, by the US Army, mostly prior to World War I.
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Department (176 words)

	The Politics of Indigenous People in Honduras
		In Honduras, various indigenous groups exist and are vocal in fighting for the protection of their human rights, land and culture.
		In May of 1997 the Indigenous and Black peoples of Honduras began their fifth pilgrimage to Tegucigalpa, this one in the name of Candido Amador Recinos who was recently assassinated.
		According to "Honduras This Week," President Reina's advisors, "continue to deny that there is any negligence in the governments efforts to provide the Indians with the land that was agreed upon" (Moreno "Indians Evicted").
	www.providence.edu /polisci/students/indianismo/politics.htm (1863 words)

	Study Abroad Spanish in Honduras Latin America - Eurolingua Institute
		La Ceiba is the third largest city in Honduras, and is probably the country's most vibrant.
		A relatively young city, it got its name from a huge Ceiba tree that was next to the beach and provided shade to the workers at the dock and locals during the afternoon.
		It is the capital of the department of Atlantida, one of the 18 departments of Honduras.
	www.eurolingua.com /Spanish_in_Honduras.htm (372 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Department of Justice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Justice, Department of, executive department of the United States federal government, created by Congress in 1870 to assume the functions performed...
		In January 2002 the Justice Department announced a criminal investigation of Enron.
		Executive Branch : departments : Justice: Structure of the FBI
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Department_of_Justice.html (137 words)

	Haiti - Honduras: The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps (Library of Congress)
		This map of the island of Tigre in the Gulf of Fonseca includes the town of Amapala (the principal port of Honduras on the Pacific Ocean), land ownership on the island, and beaches.
		This sketch map of a portion of northern Honduras appears to contain corrections not found in the 1854 or 1858 Squier "Map of Honduras and San Salvador".
		[Portion of the Department of Comayagua, Honduras in the vicinity of the Plain of Otoro].
	www.loc.gov /rr/geogmap/luso/haiti.html (3805 words)

	USAID: Honduras
		Dilma Palma of the Tolupan Tribe in Santa Marta, Yoro in Honduras is on her way to complete her technical studies in the United States thanks to the Cooperative Association of States for Scholarships (CASS) Program financed by USAID.
		The purpose of the program is to contribute to the formation of the Honduran labor force and to help Honduras achieve its goals in the democratic, social and economic development of the country.
		More specifically, the CASS program prepares students in careers that will be useful to Honduras' development by providing them with the necessary training for their success and in order to enrich their country with the knowledge they acquire in their chosen areas of expertise.
	www.usaid.gov /hn/whatsnew.htm (376 words)

	Departments of Honduras -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Each department is headed by a governor, who is appointed by the (Click link for more info and facts about President of Honduras) President of Honduras.
		department capital: (The capital and largest city of Honduras) Tegucigalpa (also the national capital)
		Islas de la Bahía department is founded (the islands were ceded to Honduras by the (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) United Kingdom in 1860).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/De/Departments_of_Honduras.htm (663 words)

	PD/A CRSP Aquanews-Spring 2001
		The objective of this study was to characterize institutional and non-institutional tilapia markets used by small- and medium-scale tilapia producers in five cities in Honduras.
		This study found that, in all of the cities, the red tilapia was preferred and the type of presentation in highest demand was whole.
		The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of ponds lined with plastic, concrete, and earth on tilapia reproduction.
	pdacrsp.oregonstate.edu /aquanews/spring2001/p8.html (487 words)

	scholarship leads
		The rationale of the partnership is to meet critical development needs in Honduras and elsewhere in Latin America by: (1) Stimulating economic entrepreneurship; (2) Increasing productivity in sustainable agricultural and natural resource systems; (3) Strengthening community-based development through education effort; and (4) Building human resources through higher education.
		Applications should be submitted by March 31, 2000 at the Embassy of Spain in the Matamoros neighborhood of Tegucigalpa or at AECI in the Palmira neighborhood of the city.
		US Agency for International Development-funded Honduras Peace Scholarship (HOPS) I and II Project was designed to address the human resource needs of Honduras to implement programs and policies for the nation's social, political and economic development.
	www.projecthonduras.com /scholarships.htm (2006 words)

	Ethnologue report for Honduras
		Mainly of the north coast between Masca, Cortés Department and Plaplaya, Gracias a Dios Department.
		Eastern Garifuna is in Honduras and Nicaragua (leaves out 'r' and tends to shorten words), Western Garifuna in Guatemala and Belize.
		Ethnic population: 800 to 1,000 in Honduras (1993 Ramon D. Rivas).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Honduras (328 words)

	SpecialMissions.org
		"At least a dozen of Honduras' 18 departments have lost an average of nearly 80% of their crops due to a prolonged drought, and the country could be facing its biggest natural disaster since Hurricane Mitch in 1998." The Government of Honduras has declared a food emergency in 104 of the country's 298 municipalities.
		The United Nations World Food Program estimates that more than 266,000 people in Honduras are being severely affected by food shortages and that it has enough resources to feed only about one-third of these through the third week in August.
		"The key here is to anticipate the worst case scenario in Honduras and prevent a hunger emergency from turning into a famine," said Caceres.
	www.specialmissions.org /news_1.htm (404 words)

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