HONDURAS

PHYSICAL CHANRACTERISTICS

• Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean on the south through the Gulf of Fonseca.
• The area is totally - 43,278 sq mi

CLIMATES

• The climate varies from tropical in the lowlands to temperate in the mountains.

ECOSYSTEMS

• Dry forest

PEOPLE AND CULTURE

• The most renowned Honduran painter is Jose Antonio Velásquez.
• There have many famous musicians and writers.
• Hondurans are often referred to as Catracho or Catracha in Spanish.
• They speak spanish.

ECONOMICS

• The economy is slowly increasing.
• It is estimated that there are more.
• than 1.2 million people who are unemployed.
• Honduras was declared one of the heavily indebted poor countries

TECHNOLOGY

• 699 km of railways; 13,603 km of roadways;[1] seven ports and harbors
• 112 airports

ENVIRONMENT

• The major environmental problems are soil erosion and loss of soil fertility
• rapid depletion of forests for lumber

RELIGIONS

Honduras, the second poorest country in Central America, suffers from extraordinarily unequal distribution of income, as well as high underemployment.

urban population expanding; the cut forest results from logging and the clearing of land for agricultural purposes