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	All words on Olancho department
		'''Olancho''' is one of the 18 departments (departamentos) into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.
		The department covers a total surface area of 24,351 km² and, in 1991, had an estimated population of 309,000.
		All this was appreciated, and it was a jolly company that lined were built into the sides of the cabin, and with mouths and hands they ate and chatted noisily.
	www.allwords.org /ol/olancho-department.html (406 words)

	Olancho department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Olancho is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.
		In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Olancho resisted government authority from Tegucigalpa to the point of causing a civil war.
		The department covers a total surface area of 24,351 km² and has an estimated population of 408,869.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olancho_Department (116 words)

	Ongoing Campaigns - - Global Response Environmental Action & Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Olancho is Honduras’ most biologically diverse region, with ecosystems ranging from mountain–top elfin and cloud forests to rare old–growth pine forests and lowland tropical rainforests.
		Olancho's old–growth pine forests and thorn forests are rare ecosystems that provide habitat for many endemic and endangered species.
		Ninety percent of known populations of the threatened cycad Dioon mejiae are in Olancho.
	www.planetmind.net /globalresponse/gra.php?i=5/03 (970 words)

	Federación Luterana Mundial - Departamento para Servicio Mundial - Programa Centroamérica, Voracious depredation in ...
		Olancho is the largest of the 18 departments in Honduras and covers 24,345 square kilometers; of these, 68% is (or was at one time) covered by forests.
		Environmentalists in Olancho estimate that 100,000 hectares of pine and other trees, such as mahogany are cut down every year in the mountains because of the ambitions of those in the timber industry.
		Padre Tamayo states that his commitment and struggle for the environment in Olancho is not the result of some coincidence, but “it comes from within me … the priest walks with his sheep; I have experienced the abundance and the poverty” of the communities in this region.
	www.lwfcamerica.org /english/contenido.php?cod=67 (1823 words)

	Global Exchange : Olancho
		Many Olanchanos relate the problems in their department to problems they perceive at the national level, namely the high level of corruption among the government and economic elite and the lack of rule of law.
		A number of community-based organizations in Olancho, accompanied by social movements and organizations from around the country, organized a week long March for Life in June 2003, from the departmental capital of Juticalpa to the nation's capital, Tegucigalpa.
		The March for Life was the most visible and possibly the largest demonstration by the social/environmental movement of Olancho; however, there have been a series of highway and road blocks, hunger strikes, and other local actions to highlight the problems and demand that the government make a serious commitment to working together for a solution.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/honduras/Olancho.html (1308 words)

	Eco-Guerrilla 'Poisons' Local Environmental Movement
		According to environmentalists in the Honduran department of Olancho, there is a campaign underway to undermine their efforts and to frighten the population.
		According to the demonstrators, the logging trucks continue to make the trip from Olancho to the sawmills, while the overexploitation of forest resources is leading to potable water shortages as the natural watersheds are being devastated by deforestation.
		This new chapter in the Olancho dispute puts the Ricardo Maduro government in a bind, because now not only does the department's security need to be ensured, but it must also control a group that is "using its power to stand in the way of any attempt of support to protect the forests," said Oliva.
	www.tierramerica.net /english/2003/0825/ianalisis.shtml (770 words)

	Honduras: Support Olancho's demands for environmental protection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the Department of Olancho in northeastern Honduras, peasant farmers, local governments, priests, conservationists and human rights activists are joining together to end a bloody era of corruption and repression.
		Olancho is Honduras’ most biologically diverse region, with ecosystems ranging from mountain-top elfin and cloud forests to rare old-growth pine forests and lowland tropical rainforests.
		They demanded a 10-year ban on logging in Olancho, so that an independent audit of the region’s biological diversity can be completed and recommendations for conservation made.
	www.rtfcam.org /take_action/Olancho.htm (1251 words)

	Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley
		Olancho Department is widely regarded, whether justly or not, as the "Wild West" of Honduras.
		I gained the perspectives of campesinos, small and large ranchers, and two of the military officers who had been assigned to "hunt" Canuto (their words), and was able to put together most (but not all) of what seem to be the key elements of Canuto's extralegal career.
		This septuagenarian agricultor living in southern Olancho insists that much of Olancho's violence was imported by landgrabbing cattle ranchers from the southern department of Choluteca.
	socrates.berkeley.edu:7001 /Research/graduate/summer2000/graham/graham.html (1217 words)

	Olancho: A Land Where Forests Fall
		TEGUCIGALPA - The resistance movement against logging in the forests of the northeastern Honduran department of Olancho is strong and is showing signs of constituting a new environmental culture, Roman Catholic priest and ecologist Andrés Tamayo told Tierramérica.
		Disgusted that deforestation is turning the local landscape into desert, the residents of Olancho have responded to the Salvadoran priest's call to fight the indiscriminate felling of trees in the area.
		Of the nearly 100 sawmills in the country, 51 are found in Olancho, though now only 18 are active because lumber revenues are on the decline, she said.
	www.tierramerica.net /2003/0721/iacentos2.shtml (861 words)

	Olancho Tips
		Olancho is the largest department (Honduras’ equivalent to state) and probably one of the richest areas in Central America.
		Olancho has long been regarded the equivalent to the old wild west, where the law of the gun was the only real law.
		Olancho’s economy is based on agriculture and cattle ranching, and a good part of the diary products, meat and grains grown in Honduras originate here.
	www.hondurastips.honduras.com /english/olancho.htm (1060 words)

	THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS AND FOREST CONFLICTS: International Development Research Centre
		Both municipalities belong to the department of Olancho, where land use conflicts are very frequent, and the municipal governments are unable to achieve satisfactory arrangements that permit forest exploitation.
		This is the name of a stretch of highway between the community of Limones, in the department of Olancho, and Mame, in the department of Colón.
		Lepaterique is a municipality in the department of Francisco Morazán.
	www.idrc.ca /biodiversity/ev-68176-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html (4248 words)

	Olancho department travel insurance — cheap travel insurance for Olancho department
		Our Olancho department single trip travel insurance is designed for people who are going on a specific holiday or single trip.
		When completing the age boxes for each person to be insured on your Olancho department single trip travel insurance policy please ensure that you give the ages of all people on the date that you are requesting the quotation and not on the date of the commencement of your holiday.
		Your Olancho department single trip travel insurance policy will cover you between the start date and the end date of your holiday.
	www.city-travel-guide.co.uk /travel-insurance/olancho-department-travel-insurance.html (1710 words)

	Bienvenidos al No PPP!
		In northern and remote Olancho province, a peasant leader who had been opposing illegal timber exploitation on communal lands was cut down at his home by an unknown pistolero.
		(and, earlier, with Lenca deities and earth-spirits)--such as the Virgin of Lourdes in Ilama, Santa Barbara department, and the Virgin of Remedios in Tomala, Lempira.
		The largest department in Honduras by territory, Olancho is largely inhabited by mestizo settlers from the central and southern zones of the country who were encouraged by the government to colonize the wild fronteir to the north in the 1960s and ´70s.
	www.lasolidarity.org /noppp/oppositionfacesrepression.htm (3271 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.
		Choluteca corresponded roughly to modern Choluteca and Valle; Comayagua, to Comayagua and La Paz; Gracias, to Copán, Intibucá, Lempira, and Ocotepeque; Olancho, to Olancho; Santa Bárbara, to Cortés and Santa Bárbara; Tegucigalpa, to El Paraíso and Francisco Morazán; and Yoro, to Atlántida, Colón, Gracias a Dios, Islas de la Bahía, and Yoro.
		The capitals had the same names as their departments, except that Juticalpa was the capital of Olancho.
	www.statoids.com /uhn.html (588 words)

	July / August 2003: Honduras: Environmental activist murdered, priest threatened (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Their demands included an immediate halt to commercial logging in Olancho, an "independent evaluation of the actual status of natural resources" in the department, and creation of an independent commission to monitor the suspension of cutting and to facilitate the evaluation (OMCT).
		Olancho continues to suffer from a long legacy of political violence carried out by powerful economic interests in the department and from the impunity which protects them.
		Olancho was the location of what is perhaps the country's most infamous massacre.
	www.rtfcam.org /report/volume_23/No_3/article_3.htm (1275 words)

	hr-headlines@hrea.org - Honduras: Environmental activist killed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		According to the information received, these acts have been perpetrated by timber dealers in collusion with the authorities and are related to the exploitation of wood in the Department by timber enterprises and the related opposition to this that has been engendered within the affected communities.
		The 'Marcha por la Vida' reportedly started on 20 June 2003 in Juticalpa, Olancho Department, and was supported by 27 workers, students, farmers, human rights and church-based organisations.
		According to the information received, the commercial cutting down of trees in the Olancho Department is carried out on a large scale and is having a serious impact on the affected communities, notably with respect to their access to natural resources and water reserves.
	www.hrea.org /lists/hr-headlines/markup/msg01155.html (760 words)

	ICT [2003/08/13] News from the South: Focus on Honduras
		The largest department in Honduras by territory, Olancho is largely inhabited by mestizo settlers from the central and southern zones of the country who were encouraged by the government to colonize the wild frontier to the north in the 1960s and '70s.
		Reyes had founded the local Olancho Environmental Movement (MAO) in 2001, and had led a cross-country March for Life in June 2003, in which 30,000 marched from Olancho to Tegucigalpa to demand a crackdown on outlaw timber operations.
		Tamayo says that six companies control the Olancho timber trade in a shady network that overlaps with that of the narco-gangs who use Olancho as an artery for U.S.-bound cocaine between clandestine ports on the Miskito Coast and the Pan-American Highway.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1060799505 (1978 words)

	Marching for Life: An Interview With José Tamayo
		Over the past several decades, Olancho, a 24,000 square-kilometer land and forest reserve, has been decimated by logging, as its forests are cut down and cleared away for commercial agriculture.
		The fragile Olancho ecosystem, which includes over 500 unique birds, rare rainforest species, and many endangered plant and animals, is in danger of vanishing.
		Father Tamayo: Olancho is the biggest department in the country—it was once the central agricultural region in all of Central America, and in 1980 it was included as part of a land and forest reserve, in response to the looting that was taking place there.
	www.motherjones.com /news/qa/2005/06/tamayo.html (2488 words)

	HONDURAN INTERNATIONAL DONOR HIGHLIGHTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Among those are the installation of electric energy and the donation of an ambulance to serve five localities in the Department of Lempira, in western Honduras.
		Japan is also refurbishing maternity clinics in the towns of Patuca, San Esteban and Guayape, Olancho department, at a cost of USD 10,000 each.
		In the Dark: Residents of a recently inaugurated Norwegian-funded housing project in Choluteca Department complain that the Honduran National Electric Company (ENEE) is not supplying electricity to the houses.
	www.usmission.hn /mission/sections/eco_05.htm (1922 words)

	Int'l recognition key to protecting Mosquitia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Olancho, the department or state with the greatest land area, is located east of the capital and forms a border with Nicaragua.
		Due to the illegal operations taking place in the municipalities of the south of Olancho various judicial actions were taken against the perpetrators, who specialize in illegal lumber sales, drug trafficking and money laundering activities.
		Law enforcement agents of the Environmental Management Department has centralized its labor force in the most critical points of illegal activity which include; the north coast of La Union, Jano, Guata and Salama, as well as the biosphere reserve of Rio Platano.
	www.marrder.com /htw/special/environment/99.htm (1027 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Apart from limited mid and larger sized farmers in the valleys and some uplands of the project Departments, therefore, the large majority of the upland farmers are small, subsistence farmers with marginal holdings, both in size and quality.
		Particular support would be given to the regularization of three type of farmers: small-scale farmers without title who settled on national lands before the passage of the AML in 1992; indigenous peoples; and groups of farmers interested in social forestry and conservation activities on public forest lands in their vicinity.
		Where commercial logging is to carried out, the department would have ultimate responsibility for approving release of the performance bonds deposited by the logging outfit to ensure compliance with environmental and technical norms.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1999/08/15/000009265_3980203115346/Rendered/INDEX/multi_page.txt (9276 words)

	Worldworx Travel - Safety - Americas - Honduras
		Although not a primary tourist destination, the northern part of the Department of Olancho is known for lumber and narcotics smuggling and violence.
		Route 39 through northern Olancho Department between Gualaco and San Esteban is highly dangerous and should be avoided.
		Route 43 in northwest Olancho Department from Talanga to Olanchito via Yoro route 23 will become a primary route to the north coast when the remaining 60% of the highway is paved circa 1/05.
	www.worldworx.tv /safety/americas/honduras (2265 words)

	Honduras Outreach, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Honduras Outreach is a non-denomination, Christian organization dedicated to building life-changing relationships between the people of the Olancho province of Honduras and caring North Americans.
		Rancho el Paraiso is the focal point of the Honduras Outreach ministry and is located in the department of Olancho in central Honduras.
		The Honduran government has identified Olancho as an area with one of the highest concentrations of infant mortality, and poverty.
	www.hoi.org /whatis.asp (893 words)

	TITLE: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Honduras 2001
		In February the Public Ministry issued a warrant for the arrest of former military official Jorge Adolfo Chavez Hernandez in the investigation of the 1998 murder of Carlos Antonio Luna Lopez, a town councilman in Catacamas, Olancho department.
		In February the president of a farmers' cooperative, Felix Roque, was murdered in Selva Azul, Copan department, in the presence of his 12-year-old son.
		Retired General Amilcar Zelaya Rodriguez, the owner of the property in the Amarateca Valley of Francisco Morazan department where the 1982 incidents occurred, was free on bail at year's end.
	www.terrorismcentral.com /Library/Government/US/StateDepartment/DemocracyHumanRights/2001/WesternHemisphere/Honduras.html (15563 words)

	Costa Rica Daily Online News Magazine
		Comandante Pepe was referring to the so far unsuccessful yet peaceful campaign by peasant farmers and ecologists to halt the logging operations that are wiping out the Olancho forests.
		Expert Julieta Castellanos, professor at the Autonomous National University of Honduras, says the existence of a true guerrilla group in Olancho is difficult to believe.
		The authorities have stepped up patrols in Olancho and have so far seized 186,000 board feet of wood that was illegally logged, a dozen vehicles, as well as chainsaws and AK-47s.
	insidecostarica.com /specialreports/honduras_eco_guerilla.htm (789 words)

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