Image Gulf of Honduras.jpg thumb 250px The Gulf of Honduras is shown in the center right Image Bay of Honduras.jpg thumb 250px The Gulf of Honduras is shown in the center of this map The Gulf or Bay of Honduras is a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea , indenting the coasts of Belize , Guatemala , and Honduras . From north to south, it runs for approximately 200 km from Dangriga , Belize, to La Ceiba , Honduras. The inner Gulf of Honduras is lined by the Belize Barrier Reef which forms the southern ... known as the Pelican Cays . The Gulf of Honduras is marked by complex dynamics of coastal and open ... Pollution Control Program in the Gulf of Honduras year title Environmental Protection and Maritime Transport ... volumes of sediments drained in the Gulf of Honduras pose a threat to its marine ecosystem . ref ... Load in the Inner Gulf of Honduras, Western Caribbean journal Journal of Hydrometeorology volume ... 2003 004 0985 HAVOWD 2.0.CO 2 ref Many United States American fishing anglers visit the Gulf of Honduras ... Hurricane Hattie swept across the Gulf of Honduras, destroying buildings in Belize. References Reflist coord 16.1514 N 88.2517 W source kolossus ruwiki scale 1000000 display title DEFAULTSORT Gulf Of Honduras Category Gulfs of the Atlantic Ocean Honduras Category Gulfs of the Caribbean Sea Honduras Category Landforms of Belize Category Landforms of Honduras Category Landforms of Guatemala Category Guatemala Honduras border Category Belize Guatemala border Belize geo stub Honduras geo stub Guatemala geo stub ar bg cs Hondurask z liv de Golf von Honduras es Golfo de Honduras fr Golfe du Honduras gl Golfo de Honduras it Golfo dell Honduras lt Hond ro lanka nl Golf van Honduras ja pl Zatoka Honduraska pt Golfo das Honduras ru sv Hondurasbukten th uk vi V nh Honduras ... 04 11 quote ref The gulf receives the runoff from the watersheds of 12 rivers with an estimated discharge ... more details
by Nicaragua , to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca , and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras , a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea . Honduras was home to several important ... rel 1985.jpg thumb Honduras is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea top , Nicaragua , a gulf on the Pacific ...pp semi indef pp move indef Infobox country conventional long name Republic of Honduras native name native name es Rep blica de Honduras icon no common name Honduras image flag Flag of Honduras.svg image coat Coat of arms of Honduras.svg image map Honduras orthographic projection .svg national motto ... anthem center Himno Nacional de Honduras br National Anthem of Honduras center br File Honduras ... longEW W largest city Tegucigalpa government type Constitutional republic leader title1 President of Honduras President leader name1 Porfirio Lobo Sosa leader title2 Vice President of Honduras Vice President leader name2 Mar a Antonieta de Bogr n leader title3 President of the National Congress of Honduras ... Court of Honduras President of the Supreme Court leader name4 Jorge Rivera Avil s sovereignty type ... 1823 established event3 Declared established date3 5 November 1838 as Honduras area rank ordinal 102 ... 51&pr.y 9 title Honduras publisher International Monetary Fund accessdate 21 April 2011 ref GDP PPP ... by age and sex than would otherwise be expected, as of July 2007. Honduras ref IPAc en audio En us Honduras.ogg h n d r s lang es link no Rep blica de Honduras IPA es re pu lika e on du as Republic of Honduras . ref is a republic in Central America. It was at times referred to as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras , which became the modern day state of Belize . ref ... Investigations in the Bay Islands, Spanish Honduras publisher Aboututila.com date accessdate 27 ... http www.honduras.com honduras constitution english.html .TvtAXCNWqgQ ref . Its northern portions ... off the northwest coast of Honduras. Honduras literally depths in Spanish. Christopher Columbus ... more details
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Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca , and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras , a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea . The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Honduras TOC limit limit 2 General reference Image Honduras rel 1985.jpg thumb An enlargeable relief map of Honduras Pronunciation IPA en h n dj r s Common English country name Honduras Official English country name The Republic of Honduras Common endonym s List of countries and capitals in native languages ...double image right Flag of Honduras.svg 224 Coat of arms of Honduras.svg 101 The Flag of Honduras The Coat of arms of Honduras Image LocationHonduras.svg thumb The location of Honduras Image Un honduras.png thumb An enlargeable map of the Republic of Honduras See also Index of Honduras related articles List of Honduras related topics The Republic of Honduras is a List of sovereign states sovereign ... www.cia.gov library publications the world factbook geos ho.html title Honduras work The World Factbook publisher United States Central Intelligence Agency accessdate July 23, 2009 ref Honduras was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras now Belize . ref http www.aboututila.com ... in the Bay Islands, Spanish Honduras Bot generated title ref The country is bordered to the west ... Name of Honduras International rankings of Honduras ISO country codes HN, HND, 340 ISO region codes See ISO 3166 2 HN Internet country code top level domain .hn Geography of Honduras Image Honduras Topography.png thumb An enlargeable topographic map of Honduras Main Geography of HondurasHonduras ... points of Honduras High Cerro Las Minas convert 2870 m ft 0 abbr on Low Caribbean Sea and North Pacific ... 256 km Coastline 820 km Population of Honduras 7,106,000 List of countries by population 97th most populous country Area of Honduras 112,492 km sup 2 sup commons Atlas of Honduras Atlas of Honduras Environment of Honduras Image Honduras OnEarth WMS.jpg thumb An enlargeable satellite image ... more details
Image Honduras sm04.png thumb right 300px Map of Honduras Image Honduras rel 1985.jpg thumb right 300px Shaded relief Honduras, 1985 Image Honduras econ 1983.jpg thumb right 300px Economic activity map of Honduras, 1983 Image Honduras land 1983.jpg thumb right 300px Land use map of Honduras, 1983 Honduras is a country situated in Central America . Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific ... terrain to the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific Ocean. The southern apex of the triangle is a 153 kilometer coastline at the Gulf of Fonseca, which opens onto the Pacific Ocean. The western land boundary .... See also List of islands of HondurasHonduras controls a number of islands as part of its offshore ... form Islas de la Bah a Bay Islands , one of the eighteen departments into which Honduras is divided ... be found nearby, among them Cayos Zapotillos and Cayos Cochinos. In the Gulf of Fonseca, the main ... Exposici n . Geographic coordinates coord 15 00 N 86 30 W type country Topography Image Honduras Topography.png thumb right 300px Topography of HondurasHonduras has three distinct topographical regions ... in the north and the Pacific lowlands bordering the Gulf of Fonseca are characterized by alluvial ... Honduras lacks the rich volcanic ash found in other Central American countries. Until the early part ..., Honduras s mountains blend into the mountain ranges of Guatemala. The western mountains have the highest ... the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf of Fonseca. This depression splits the country s cordillera s into eastern ..., the depression widens again as it runs along the border of El Salvador into the Gulf of Fonseca. Scattered ... plains, which most Honduras call the north coast, or simply the coast, has traditionally been Honduras s most exploited region. The central part of the Caribbean lowlands, east of La Ceiba, is a narrow ... valleys. The broadest river valley, along the R o Ul a near the Guatemalan border, is Honduras s most developed area. Both Puerto Cort s , the country s largest port, and San Pedro Sula , Honduras s industrial ... more details
Vallecillo is a municipality in the Honduras Honduran Departments of Honduras department of Francisco Moraz n department Francisco Moraz n . Honduras geo stub Francisco Moraz n Department coord 14 31 0 N 87 24 0 W type adm2nd region HN source nlwiki display title Category Populated places in Honduras Category Municipalities of the Francisco Moraz n Department es Vallecillo Honduras it Vallecillo Honduras nl Vallecillo Honduras Populated Place, Long 87.65, Lat 14.7 ... more details
Internet in Honduras is common in all the major centers of population, with broadband Internet access common. Honduras had an estimated 100 Internet Service Providers supplying an estimated 400,000 users in 2005 and all major media have an Internet presence. Hondutel provides dial up Internet access . Honduras stub North America topic Internet in Category Communications in Honduras Category Internet by country Honduras Category Science and technology in Honduras es Internet en Honduras ... more details
The most popular sport in Honduras is Football soccer football , the governing body of football in Honduras is the Federaci n Nacional Aut noma de F tbol de Honduras . Honduras has taken part in the Summer Olympics eight times, and the Winter Olympics in 1992. Other sports played in Honduras include tennis , baseball and American football . Sport in North America Sport in Central and South America and the Caribbean See also Honduras at the Olympics References Reflist Category Sport in Honduras es Deportes en Honduras pt Esporte em HondurasHonduras sport stub ... more details
2011 infobox football club clubname Honduras image File No Logo HON.png 200px fullname Club Deportivo Honduras nickname shortname founded dissolved ground Estadio Humberto Micheletti br El Progreso , Honduras capacity 5,000 chrtitle chairman ceo mgrtitle manager league Liga Nacional de Ascenso de Honduras Liga de Ascenso season position pattern la1 pattern b1 pattern ra1 pattern sh1 pattern ... leftarm2 body2 rightarm2 shorts2 socks2 topscorer fansgroup honours current C.D. Honduras is a Honduras Honduran Association football football club based in El Progreso , Honduras . The club currently plays in the Liga Nacional de Ascenso de Honduras . Squad Fs start Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Gil F tima Valerio Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Ren Guatusa Flores Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Santos Ju rez Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Jorge Burro Deras Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Domingo Mingo Ramos Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Rolando Indio Ch vez Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Pablo Perdomo Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Norris Bodden Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Andr s vila Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Pedro Deras Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Getulio Millares Fs mid Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Jacobo Sarmiento Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Oscar Trejo Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Reynaldo Castro Gil Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Oscar Marino Piedrah ta Fs player no pos nat Honduras name David M calla Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Jorge Alberto Suazo Mar n Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Marcos Pe a Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Oscar Bustamante Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Alfredo Hawit Banegas Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Allan Ricardo Young Fs player no pos nat Honduras name Jos L pez Paz Fs end Liga Nacional de F tbol de Honduras Liga Nacional de F tbol de Honduras seasons Liga Nacional de Ascenso de Honduras seasons DEFAULTSORT C.D. Honduras Category Football ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 For the California community Gualala, California Gualala is a municipality in the Honduras Honduran Departments of Honduras department of Santa B rbara department Santa B rbara . Coord 15 01 N 88 014 W source nlwiki region HN scale 50000 display title Santa B rbara Department Category Populated places in Honduras Category Municipalities of the Santa B rbara Department Honduras geo stub es Gualala it Gualala nl Gualala Honduras pt Gualala ... more details
Politics of Honduras Elections in Honduras gives information on election s and election results in politics of HondurasHonduras . Honduras elects on national level a head of state &ndash the president &ndash and a legislature . The President of Honduras is elected for a four year year term by the people by a simple majority of valid votes nulls and blanks excluded . The unicameral Congress of Honduras National Congress Congreso Nacional has 128 members diputados , elected for four year term by proportional representation to represent the country s various Departments of Honduras departments . Honduras presidential elections are held on the last Sunday of November of the election year. Registration and voting is mandatory. The Honduran general election, 2009 last presidential elections occurred on November 29, 2009. Honduras has a two party system , which means that there are two dominant political parties the Liberal Party of Honduras PLH and the National Party of Honduras PNH . The other three registered parties, which all produce a candidate for the Presidential election, are the Democratic Unification Party PUD , the Christian Democratic Party of Honduras DC and the Innovation and Unity Party PINU Recent elections Main Honduran general election, 2009 Disputed in the wake of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis Main Honduran general election, 2005 2005 Presidential election Honduras presidential elections, 2005 2005 Parliamentary election Honduras legislative elections, 2005 Past elections Honduran elections See also Electoral calendar Electoral system External links http psephos.adam carr.net countries h honduras Adam Carr s Election Archive for Honduras http www.nuevamayoria.com ES INVESTIGACIONES politico electoral 050726.html Panorama Presidencial on NuevaMayoria.com in Spanish North America topic Elections in Category Elections in Honduras ... more details
Other uses Sabanagrande disambiguation Sabanagrande is a municipality in the Honduras Honduran Departments of Honduras department of Francisco Moraz n department Francisco Moraz n People make a living by planting corn and beans and selling them on the market. Many people also sell rosquillas. Cattle is also raised and cheese and other products are sold. Honduras geo stub Francisco Moraz n Department coord 13 48 N 87 16 W display title region HN type city source GNS enwiki Category Populated places in Honduras Category Municipalities of the Francisco Moraz n Department es Sabanagrande Honduras it Sabanagrande Honduras lt Sabanagrand nl Sabanagrande Honduras pt Sabanagrande ... more details
In Honduras , prostitution itself is legal but not facilitating and promoting the prostitution of another brothels and prostitution rings . ref cite web url http www.state.gov g drl rls hrrpt 2008 wha 119164.htm title 2008 Human Rights Report Honduras publisher State.gov date 2009 01 01 accessdate 2011 10 15 ref Honduras, like many Latin American countries, has to deal with child sex tourism . ref cite web url http www.state.gov g drl rls hrrpt 2006 78896.htm title Honduras publisher State.gov date 2007 03 06 accessdate 2011 10 15 ref References reflist External links http www.time.com time magazine article 0,9171,1101990215 19907,00.html Tourists Who Prey On Kids http findarticles.com p articles mi hb5037 is 200503 ai n18256767 Unwanted tourists Honduras. Honduras s sex tourism http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi world americas 613241.stm Honduras jails US sex criminals http www.chinadaily.com.cn en doc 2003 11 25 content 284539.htm Honduran First Lady seeks to rescue street children North America in topic Prostitution in Category Prostitution by country Honduras Category Honduran society Honduras stub ... more details
of Central America El Salvador , Costa Rica , Nicaragua , Honduras , and Guatemala and the hope ... . Ships of the Military of Honduras Honduran Navy fly as a naval ensign a version of the national flag in which the five star emblem is replaced by the coat of arms of Honduras above an inverted arch of five small turquoise stars. External links FOTW id hn title Honduras Flags of North America nationalflags to edit this table, go to Template Nationalflags DEFAULTSORT Honduras, Flag of Category National flags Category National symbols of Honduras Flag Category 1866 establishments Flag of HondurasHonduras stub flag stub af Vlag van Honduras am ar az Honduras bayra bs Zastava Hondurasa ca Bandera d Hondures cs Hondurask vlajka de Flagge von Honduras et Hondurase lipp el es Bandera de Honduras eo Flago de Honduro fa fr Drapeau du Honduras ko hi hr Zastava Hondurasa bpy id Bendera Honduras it Bandiera dell Honduras jv Gend ra Honduras he sw Bendera ya Honduras lt Hond ro v liava hu Honduras z szlaja mk nah p n Honduras nl Vlag van Honduras ja no Honduras flagg nds Flagg vun Honduras pl Flaga Hondurasu pt Bandeira das Honduras ru sco Banner o Honduras sq Flamuri i Hondurasit sk Vlajka Hondurasu sr sh Zastava Hondurasa fi Hondurasin lippu sv Honduras flagga th tr Honduras bayra uk ... more details
Pimienta is a municipality in the Honduras Honduran Departments of Honduras department of Cort s department Cort s . Pimienta means Capsicum pepper in Spanish language Spanish . Honduras geo stub Cort s Department coord 15 17 N 87 58 W source nlwiki region HN scale 50000 type adm2nd display title Category Populated places in Honduras Category Municipalities of the Cort s Department it Pimienta nl Pimienta pt Pimienta ... more details
Refimprove date October 2009 Crime is one of the many social problems of everyday life in the Central American nation of Honduras . Over the years, Honduras has been experiencing an increase in armed robberies and firearm violence. There are reports that since the 2009 Honduran coup d tat , there has been a large increase in crime and violence. ref CounterPunch , 16 August 2010, http www.counterpunch.org reichard08162010.html US Embraces Honduran Thugocracy ref Street Crime Poverty, gangs, and low apprehension and conviction rates of criminals contribute to a high crime rate. There have been reports of men carrying firearms and machetes, which has led to violence several times. ref name Honduras Security Briefing http www.honduras information.hotelhonduras.com Honduras security crime.html Honduras Security Briefing ref Since Honduras has a large tourist industry, tourists have been often been targeted victims of crime, such as robbery. In San Pedro Sula , armed robberies against tourist vans, minibuses and cars traveling from the airport to area hotels. Dangerous Areas The Francisco Morazan Department is said to be one of the most violent areas in Honduras. ref name Honduras Security Briefing See also Illegal drug trade in Honduras References reflist Crime in North America Category Crime in Honduras Honduras stub ... more details
Politics of Honduras The Central America n nation of Honduras is currently divided into 18 Department ... by the List of Presidents of Honduras President of Honduras . Departments of Honduras Image HondurasDivisions.png ... entry for Honduras . ref 1. Atl ntida department Atl ntida La Ceiba 344,099 4,251 2. Choluteca department ... 67,384 16,630 10. Intibuc department Intibuc La Esperanza, Honduras La Esperanza 179,862 3,072 11 ... Paz, Honduras La Paz 156,560 2,331 13. Lempira department Lempira Gracias, Honduras Gracias 250,067 ... Juticalpa 419,561 24,351 16. Santa B rbara department Santa B rbara Santa B rbara, Honduras Santa ... Yoro 465,414 7,939 Population data source http www.ine hn.org censo2001 p19.pdf Evolution of Honduras ... la Bah a department is founded the islands were ceded to Honduras by the United Kingdom in 1860 . 1881 .... 1957 Col n is divided in two to create Gracias a Dios department. See also Honduras Municipalities of Honduras List of Honduras related topics ISO 3166 2 HN References reflist External links http www.statoids.com uhn.html Statoids Departments of HondurasHonduras Articles on first level administrative divisions of North American countries Category Departments of Honduras Category Subdivisions of Honduras Category Lists of country subdivisions Honduras, Departments Category Country subdivisions of the Americas Honduras 1 Category First level administrative country subdivisions Departments, Honduras Category Honduras related lists bg ca Departaments d Hondures cs Departementy Hondurasu de Departamentos in Honduras es Organizaci n territorial de Honduras eo Departementoj de Honduro fr D partements du Honduras gl Subdivisi ns das Honduras it Dipartimenti dell Honduras he lt Hond ro departamentai hu Honduras megy i nl Departementen van Honduras ja pl Podzia administracyjny Hondurasu pt Departamentos de Honduras ro Departamente n Honduras ru sv Honduras departement zh ... more details
Television in Honduras consists of both local channels and foreign television , normally distributed through cable tv cable . Honduras adopted ATSC Standards for digital terrestrial television broadcasting. The Comisi n Nacional de Telecomunicaciones CONATEL decided on January 9, 2007 to adopt the ATSC standard, which went into effect on January 16, 2007, when it was published in the Diario Oficial La Gaceta . Fact date February 2007 The first Digital High Definition TV Station, CampusTv , was founded by Universidad de San Pedro Sula . Honduran TV The following are some of the tv channels produced in Honduras. Canal 11 Honduras Canal 11 http www.canal11.hn Canal 36 Cholusat Sur Canal 36 http www.cholusatsur.com Maya TV Maya TV Canal 66 http www.maya tv.com Teleceiba Teleceiba Canal 7 http www.teleceiba.com Televicentro Honduras http www.televicentrotv.net Televisi n Nacional de Honduras MundoTV Canal 42 Telecentro Honduran television stations Latin America topic Television in Category Television in Honduras es Televisi n de Honduras ... more details
Televicentro or TVC is a television station in Honduras . located in the capital Tegucigalpa . It was founded in 1987 in order to unite as one business the four television channels.This channels are Canal 5 HRTG TV , HRCV TV Telesistema , HRLP TV Telecadena 7 y 4 and Mega TV Honduras .This are the principal channels of Honduras.Canal 5 HRTG TV is the first channel of television of Honduras. References ref http www.televicentrotv.net new corp historia.php Televicentro ref references External links http www.televicentrotv.net new tvconline index.htm Official site Honduran television stations Honduras stub Category Television in Honduras Category Spanish language television stations es Televicentro Honduras ... more details
Infobox Paralympics HondurasHonduras made its Paralympic Games d but at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta , with a two man delegation in track and field. It has competed in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics , but never in the Winter Paralympics . Honduran delegations have always been small, never including more than two competitors. All Honduran Paralympians have been runners, and none has won a Paralympic medal so far. ref http www.paralympic.org Sport Results search.html?npc HON&gender all&medal all&sport all&games all Honduras at the Paralympics , International Paralympic Committee ref See also Honduras at the Olympics References Reflist Honduras sport stub Paralympics stub NationsinParalympics Category Honduras at the Paralympics he ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group Filipinos in Honduras image poptime 220 langs English language English Tagalog language Tagalog Honduran Spanish popplace Tegucigalpa rels Roman Catholicism related Overseas Filipino Filipinos in Honduras consist of migrants from the Philippines and their descendants. According to the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs DFA , there are currently around 220 Filipinos living and working in Honduras, with most of them working in the garment or textile factories. ref http www.abs cbnnews.com pinoy migration 06 29 09 dfa says worried pinoys honduras DFA says worried for Pinoys in Honduras , ABS CBNnews.com , 29 June 2009. ref Following the 2009 Honduran coup d tat , the Philippine government have been checking the conditions and safety of the Filipino nationals in the country. See Also Asian Latin American Filipino immigration to Mexico References Reflist PHOverseassmall Category Filipino diaspora Honduras Category Ethnic groups in Honduras Filipino ... more details
Islam by country The statistics for Islam in Honduras estimate a total Muslim population of 11,000 representing 0.1 percent of the population ref Pew Research Center, Mapping the Global Muslim Population. A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World s Muslim Population , October 2009, p. 33 http pewforum.org uploadedfiles Topics Demographics Muslimpopulation.pdf . ref . Although there are no official statistics, it is estimated that between 100,000 and 200,000 of the country s seven million inhabitants are of Arab descent, and of these, the great majority are Palestinian Arab s. However, the vast majority of these Arabs are of Orthodox and Catholic Christian decent. No other country in the Western Hemisphere has a higher proportion of Arab immigrants and, in absolute numbers, Honduras ranks fourth after the United States, Canada and Chile . ref The Arabs of Honduras , Luxner, L., JA 01 34 37 ref There are two known Islamic organizations in Honduras , including the Centro Isl mico de Honduras in San Pedro Sula led by Yusuf Amdani, and the Comunidad Isl mica de Honduras in Cort s, Honduras Cort s . Background Honduras received its first Arab immigrant in 1896, and by 1918, according to a local survey, Arab immigrants were largely Palestinian Christians in San Pedro Sula , the country s second largest city. They immigrated due to the Ottoman control of Palestine, where Arabs fled with Ottoman passports gaining their commonly known nickname, Turkish Turcos . Immigration picked up again after World War II and the Arab Israeli war of 1948. In 1984, an Islamic charitable organization was founded, with the main object of taking care of the interests of the Arabs and Muslims ... the Qur an and the Arabic language. ref http www.islamicpopulation.com honduras muslim.html Muslim ..., and periodicals reflist Islam in the Americas DEFAULTSORT Islam In Honduras Category Religion in Honduras Category Islam by country Honduras ms Islam di Honduras ... more details
coord 15 52 N 085 30 W region HN type adm2nd source nlwiki display title File Limon Honduras.jpg thumb Women in Lim n, 1994 Lim n ref name 2001 census cite web url http ccp.ucr.ac.cr bvp censos honduras 2001 index.htm title XVI Censo Nacional de Poblaci n y V de Habitaci n Honduras 2001 publisher El Centro Centroamericano de Poblaci n CCP language Spanish ref ref cite web url http www.monografias.com trabajos52 municipios honduras municipios honduras8.shtml colon title Antecedentes hist ricos de los departamentos y municipios de Honduras Departamento de Col n publisher Monograf as.com language Spanish ref ref cite web url http www.angelfire.com ca5 mas dpmapas col limon limon.html title Municipio de Lim n language Spanish ref is a municipality in the Departments of Honduras department of Col n Department Honduras Col n in Honduras . According to official census of 2001, has a population of 8,627 inhabitants. ref name 2001 census Its territory of convert 643.4 km is divided into an wikt aldea aldea village and 23 wikt caser o caser os hamlets . Lim n is bordered to the north by the Caribbean Sea , to the south and east by the municipality of Iriona , and to the west by the municipalities of Trujillo, Col n Trujillo and Santa Rosa de Aguan . References references Navigation box br Col n Department Honduras Category Municipalities of the Col n Department Honduras Category Populated places in Honduras Honduras geo stub es Lim n Col n it Lim n Honduras nl Lim n Honduras ... more details
Notability Astro date February 2012 Infobox planet minorplanet yes width 25em bgcolour FFFFC0 apsis name Honduras symbol image caption discovery yes discovery ref discoverer E. W. Elst discovery site European Southern Observatory discovered April 8, 1991 designations yes mp name 11055 alt names 1991 GT2 named after Honduras mp category orbit ref epoch May 14, 2008 aphelion 2.9687638 perihelion 1.8692360 semimajor eccentricity 0.2272691 period 1374.2071397 avg speed inclination 11.37376 asc node 199.58333 mean anomaly 138.63568 arg peri 79.83337 satellites physical characteristics yes dimensions mass density surface grav escape velocity sidereal day axial tilt pole ecliptic lat pole ecliptic lon albedo temperatures temp name1 mean temp 1 max temp 1 temp name2 max temp 2 spectral type abs magnitude 13.5 11055 Honduras 1991 GT2 is a Asteroid belt main belt asteroid discovered on April 8, 1991 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory . References Reflist External links http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 11055 Honduras JPL Small Body Database Browser on 11055 Honduras DEFAULTSORT Honduras Category Main Belt asteroids Category Asteroids named for places Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1991 Beltasteroid stub fa it 11055 Honduras hu 11055 Honduras pl 11055 Honduras pt 11055 Honduras uk 11055 vi 11055 Honduras yo 11055 Honduras ... more details
The pre Hispanic people that lived in actual Honduras were polytheistic Mayans and other groups. In the 16th century Chrisianity was introduced. History Ancient Religions Maya religion was an imporant religion in Copan Honduras , between fourth and seventh century. Post Colonial Religion The first catholic mass celebrated in continental American territory was carried out on August 14, 1502 in Punta Caxinas, which was two weeks after the discovery of Honduras by Christopher Columbus . Since then, the Spanish ... of religion File Iglesiaduyure.JPG thumb Roman Catholic church in Duyure , Honduras The Constitution ... or discrimination in Honduras based on religious affiliation, belief, or practice. ref name us Twentieth ... of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Mormon ref name us . Nowadays the catholic church in Honduras ... Espiscopal of Honduras . Other religions like the diverse Protestant churches are structured by three confederacies The Shepherds Association of Honduras, the Evangelical Brotherhood of Honduras and the Apostolic Network of Honduras. In recent years, both the Roman Catholic Church , and a big ... that it would build a temple in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, making it one of the six LDS temples in Central America. The most prominent evangelical churches include the Abundant Life Church Honduras Abundant ... There are small numbers of Islam in Honduras Muslims and Judaism Jews . ref name us San Pedro Sula ... government statistics on religious affiliation in Honduras . ref name us http www.state.gov g drl rls irf 2008 108530.htm International Religious Freedom Report 2008 Honduras . U.S. Department ... identify themselves as Roman Catholicism in Honduras Roman Catholics , 36 percent as evangelicalism ... other . ref name us See also Islam in Honduras Roman Catholicism in Honduras References reflist Americas topic Religion in DEFAULTSORT Religion In Honduras Category Religion in Honduras es Religi n en Honduras ... more details
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