Honduras

Honduras

Honduras / is a republic in Central America. Honduras was sometimes referred to as Spanish to distinguish it from British Honduras, which became the modern state of Belize

Honduras covers an area of ​​about 11,249 km2 and has a population of over 8 million. In the northern parts it is part of the Western Caribbean region, as shown in the demographics and culture of the region. Honduras is known for its rich natural resources, including various minerals, coffee, tropical fruits, and cane, as well as the growing textile industry, which serves

Honduras was home to several important Central American cultures, most notably Maya, before it was opened by Spain in the 16th century. Roman Catholic Spanish and the now Spanish prevailing view, along with numerous customs blended with indigenous culture. Honduras became independent in 1821 and since then the Republic, although it has endured so much social conflict and political instability, remains one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Honduras has the highest homicide rate in the world

The area is an important point of biodiversity because of the many plants and animals that can be found there. Like other countries in the region, Honduras contains many biological resources. It hosts more than 6,000 species of vascular plants, of which 630 (described so far) are from the orchid family; About 250 reptiles and amphibians, more than 700 species of birds, and 110 species of mammals, half of them bats. In the northeastern region of La Mosquitia lies in Rio Platano, a reserve of biosphere reserves, which are rainforests located in the lowlands and home to great biodiversity. This area was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites in 1982

The economy is growing constantly but slowly, but the distribution of wealth is still very polarized with the average remaining low wages. In the past few years, economic growth has averaged 7% per year and is considered one of the most successful growth rates in Latin America, but 50% or nearly 3.7 million people are still below the poverty line. According to the World Bank, Honduras is the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, after Nicaragua and Haiti

It is estimated that more than 1.2 million people are unemployed, so the unemployment rate stands at 27.9%. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund announced that Honduras was one of the heavily indebted poor countries, which made it eligible for debt relief in 2005. After years of its currency tumbling against the US dollar, the currency stabilized Lampira at about 19 Lamps per dollar. In June 2008 the exchange rate against the US dollar was close to 18.85. In 2005 Honduras signed a free trade agreement with the United States

In December 2005, Honduras included the main port of Puerto Cortes in the US Container Security Initiative.

Agriculture is the craft of the country's population, with about 56.2% of the workforce employed. Honduras is famous for coffee, and corn cultivation occupies half of the land designated for crops, and its animal wealth consists of 2.2 million cows, 5,000 sheep and 534 thousand goats

And forest activity is the cutting of mahogany and pine trees, and Honduras has a historical reputation for producing precious minerals, and this was the reason for Spain's colonization of it to mine gold and silver, and therefore it depleted its wealth of rare metals, and zinc, lead, copper and iron are extracted from it, as well as coal and mercury. It is very limited. On December 7, 2006, the US administration announced Homeland Security and Energy's first phase of the Safe Shipping Initiative, an unprecedented effort by the US federal government to build on existing measures by enhancing port security from the ability to scan containers for nuclear and radiological materials overseas and conduct an assessment Better risks than containers contained

The first stage of freight insurance involves the deployment of a mixture of current technology and the installation of nuclear material detectors to six foreign ports: the Qasim Port in Pakistan; Puerto Curtis, Honduras; Southampton in the United Kingdom; Port of Salalah in the Sultanate of Oman; Singapore port; Jaman area of ​​Busan port in South Korea. Since early 2007, containers from these outlets have been scanned to detect radiation and risk factors from the information before they are allowed to leave for the United States

Honduras is a country in Central America, entered by Christopher Columbus in 1502, and in 1523 the first Spanish forces entered the territory of Honduras led by Gil Gonzalez, and in 1524 a organizational regiment for state rule headed by Francisco de las Casas arrived. It was inhabited in the past by a number of tribes in a wide variety of cultures and languages, the most important and the strongest of which are the famous Mayan tribes that established one of the world's ancient civilizations, who built their holy city and their ceremonial capital in Copan in the western part of Honduras

After the collapse of the Mayan civilization, various groups crawled into and settled parts of Honduras. The languages ​​spoken by these groups reveal various relations with Mexican tribes called Toltecs and Aztecs, and tribes called Chipshas in Colombia, and even from southwestern United States. In the western part of central Honduras was inhabited by tribes called Lanka, who speak a language of unknown origin. These independent groups maintained trade relations with each other and with other distant peoples such as Panama and Mexico

These tribes and what remains and descended from the Mayan civilizations are the original inhabitants of Honduras, who will resist the Spanish occupation later and emerge from them legendary personalities who are leaders of autonomy in Central America, such as Toman, Limbra, Atlacatel, Nicarão, Deriagua Kutan and Oraka. By 1537, Lembra, the then-well-known leader, had unified more than two hundred tribes of the American Indian tribes who were formerly his rivals for an organized resistance against the penetration of the Spanish invaders, and in a village called Itempka he announced plans to expel the Spaniards and gave his directions to all his allies for a general uprising when The signal is given

On top of a large rock called Sirquin, he made an impenetrable fortress, trenches, and massive fortifications and collected large supplies from neighboring tribes, and this castle was called it indomitable, and he gave the signal to start and resulted in the killing of three Spanish Spaniards who happened to pass through this area. The Spanish forces gathered additional forces assisting the Red Indians from Guatemala and Mexico to attack and destroy this rock, yet the rock remained unbeatable, and at the same time Limbra set fire to a bay inhabited by Spanish citizens called Comayagua, so the Spaniards had to flee to an area called Garcia

But Garcia was threatened by the surrounding tribes, and other areas inhabited by the Spaniards were besieged, and it was difficult for the Spaniards to live in this reality. Lembra, then he invited him to peace negotiations, and when he decided to continue the fighting, a Spanish sniper killed him dead, and after his killing 30,000, they enumerated his army were between a fugitive and a surrender, and then Honduras was captured