Honduras

Honduras is located in Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua. It also borders the North Pacific Ocean, between El Salvador and Nicaragua. It is 112,090 square kilometers; 820 of which is coastline. It is slightly larger than Tennessee. The capital of Honduras is Tegucigalpa. The climate is subtropical in the lowlands and temperate in the mountains. The terrain is mostly mountains in the interior and narrow coastal plains. The type of government is a democratic constitutional republic. The three largest cities are Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, and La Ceiba. The people inhabiting Honduras are called Hondurans. The Honduran flag has three equal horizontal bands of blue, whit, and blue with five blue pointed stars in an X pattern on the white band. The stars represent the members of the former Federal Republic of Central America; which were Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and In the times preceding the Spanish Conquest, Central America was served as a bridge between the indigenous people of North and South America. It was the meeting place for many different cultures. Sometime in 1508, Vicente Yanez and Juan Diaz de Solis followed Columbus to the New World. They had found Honduras, but after Columbus did and they did not know he had already found and named it. They got there and renamed it as Cabo de Honduras which means Cape of the Deep Waters. But now it is simplified to only Honduras. The Spanish empire set up a permanent residence in Honduras in 1524 when Hernan Cortes instructed Cristobal de Olid to claim Triunfo de la Cruz. Other people followed and founded their own communties. It made one of the greatest struggles for power the world has ever seen. The native Indians rebelled against the Spanish colonization with an army of their own. The army was unde...