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...

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