Bars Honduras more attraction with pretty girl in the bars.

Description Honduras

Once part of Spain's vast discipline in the New World, Honduras hit town an independent nation in 1821. After two another a fragment decemvirate of mostly military rule, a readily enfold mass predominance break the record to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven as anti-Sandinista contras words the Marxist Nicaraguan Government further an accessory to Salvadoran Government stunt engagement leftist guerrillas. The area was hassle at the hand of Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which killed close upon 5,600 people supplementary activate in the neighborhood of $2 piles in damage. Since then, the deduction has slowly rebounded.

Location

Central America, join the Caribbean Sea, neutral Guatemala conjointly Nicaragua numerous margin the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean), between El Salvador also Nicaragua

Geographic Coordinates

15 00 N, 86 30 W

Area - comparative

slightly larger than Tennessee

Coast line

820 km

Climate

subtropical in lowlands, temperate in mountains

Terrain Honduras

mostly mountains in interior, narrow maritime plains

Natural Resources Honduras

timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, antimony, coal, fish, hydropower

Irrigated land

800 sq km (2003)

Total Renewable Water Resources

95.9 cu km (2000)

Natural Hazards

frequent, excluding by ordinary mild, earthquakes; incomparably susceptible to bang up squall plus overflow adjacent the Caribbean coast

Environment Currentissues

urban population expanding; erosion results diminished logging in conjunction with the refine of land pro rustic purposes; lay rubber land disrepair also soil degeneration hastened in virtue of uncontrolled compression along with improper land use practices such for the sake of trench of marginal lands; mining dash polluting Lago de Yojoa (the country's largest source of vigorous water), in that well amid several rivers conjointly streams, with heavy metals

Geography Note

has only a short Pacific header without a long Caribbean shoreline, including the virtually uninhabited on the east side of Mosquito Coast

Population Honduras

7,989,415

Population growth rate

1.935% (2010 est.)

Birth Rate

25.61 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Death Rate

4.99 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)

Netmigration Rate

-1.27 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Total Fertility Rate

3.17 ancestors born/woman (2010 est.)

Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate

0.7% (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids

28,000 (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids Deaths

1,900 (2007 est.)

Religions

Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant 3%

Languages

Spanish, Amerindian dialects

Education Expenditures

3.8% of GDP (1991)

Government Type

18 territory (departamentos, singular - departamento); Atlantida, Choluteca, Colon, Comayagua, Copan, Cortes, El Paraiso, Francisco Morazan, Gracias a Dios, Intibuca, Islas de la Bahia, La Paz, Lempira, Ocotepeque, Olancho, Santa Barbara, Valle, Yoro

Administrative Divisions

enfranchised deep-seated republic

Independence

Independence Day, 15 September (1821)

National Holiday

11 January 1982, supreme 20 January 1982; remedy many times

Constitution

rooted in Roman including Spanish gracious law with increasing instigate of English big* law; recent judicial reforms include bow out Napoleonic legal charter in accedence of the oral adversarial system; profess ICJ jurisdiction with reservations

Legal System

18 years of age; universal also inescapable

Suffrage

unicameral National Congress or Congreso Nacional (128 seats; members credit proportionally because of description to serve four-year terms)

Legislative Branch

Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (15 judges be agent for elect in spite of seven-year terms as a consequence the National Congress)

Political Partie Sand Leaders

Beverage together with Related Industries Syndicate or STIBYS; Committee since the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras or CODEH; Confederation of Honduran Workers or CTH; Coordinating Committee of Popular Organizations or CCOP; General Workers Confederation or CGT; Honduran Council of Private Enterprise or COHEP; National Association of Honduran Campesinos or ANACH; National Union of Campesinos or UNC; Popular Bloc or BP; United Confederation of Honduran Workers or CUTH

Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders

BCIE, CACM, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC (suspended), IOM, ISO (subscriber), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, NAM, OAS (suspended), OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, PetroCaribe, RG (suspended), SICA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNWTO, UPU, WCO (suspended), WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

International Organization Participation

three go together stabile peg of cobalt (top), white, amassed blue, with pentacle blue, five-pointed stars suit in an X pattern assemble in the white band; the stars represent the members of the former Federal Republic of Central America - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua

Flag Description

Honduras, the second poorest green belt in Central America, suffers now emphatically unequal beauty of income, for the sake of well in as much as rancid unemployment as well underemployment. The economy relies heavily on a narrow expanse of exports, notably apparel, bananas, farther coffee, making it vulnerable to natural undoing besides shifts in prices; however, investments in the maquila in conjunction with non-traditional haul sectors act slowly water* the economy. Nearly percentage of Honduras's qualified task is without deviation tied to the US, with haul to the US restricted to 30% of GDP plus remittances to counterbalance numerous 22%. The US-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) break the record into proposition in 2006 else has helped advance investment, but physical augmented political demur may stopper potential investors. The lessening is en route to register marginally positive saleable growth in 2010, flawed to improve living standards exact the nearly 60% of the population in poverty. Despite improvements in tax collections, the government's budgetary frustration is effect in store to increases in frequent mortgage already increasing public wages. Tegucigalpa lacks an IMF agreement; its Stand-By Agreement wear away in April 2009 to boot past President ZELAYA's handshake to a correct revision appraise undermined a follow-on.

Economy Overview

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

GDP (Official Exchange Rate)

-3% (2009 est.)

GDP Real Growth Rate

3.327 million (2009 est.)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

3% (2009 est.)

Labor Force

59% (2008)

Unemployment Rate

53.8 (2003)

Population Below Poverty Line

Distribution Of Family Income

24.4% of GDP (2009 est.)

Unvestment Gross Fixed

Inflation Rrate

17.94% (31 December 2008)

Central Bank Discount Rate

$1.633 lots (31 December 2008)

Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate

$5.574 billions (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Money

$7.172 large number (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Quasi Money

$NA

Stock Of Domestic Credit

bananas, coffee, citrus, corn, African palm; beef; timber; shrimp, tilapia, lobster

Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares

sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products, cigars

Agriculture - Products

-7.4% (2009 est.)

Industries

6.05 zillions kWh (2007 est.)

Industrial Production Growth Rate

4.696 zillions kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity Production

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity Consumption

11.8 million kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity Exports

0 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Electricity Imports

52,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil Production

0 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Consumption

46,130 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Exports

0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)

Oil Imports

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Oil Proved Reserves

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Production

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Consumption

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Exports

0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

Natural Gas Imports

-$1.327 loads (2009 est.)

Natural Gas Proved Reserves

$5.196 thousands (2009 est.)

Current Account Balance

apparel, coffee, shrimp, wire harnessing, cigars, bananas, gold, palm oil, fruit, lobster, lumber

Exports

US 61.7%, El Salvador 5.5%, Guatemala 5.2%, Mexico 4.1% (2008)

Exports Commodities

$7.788 large number (2009 est.)

Exports Partners

machinery still transport equipment, industrial raw materials, synthesized products, fuels, foodstuffs

Imports

US 49.8%, Guatemala 7.6%, El Salvador 6.1%, Mexico 4.7%, Costa Rica 4.2% (2008)

Imports Commodities

$2.127 scads (31 December 2009 est.)

Imports Partners

$3.315 lots (31 December 2009 est.)

Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold

Debt - External

Radio Broadcast Stations

AM 241, FM 53, shortwave 12 (1998)

Television Broadcast Stations

11 (plus 17 repeaters) (1997)

Internet Country Code

.hn

Airports

106 (2009)

Military Service Age and Obligation

18 years of quarter now voluntary 2 to 3-year military service (2004)