The small Honduran shops, most of which had manufactured clothing or food products for the domestic market, traditionally received little support in the form of credit from the government or the private sector and were more like artisans than conventional manufacturers.

In addition, by 1987 about 750, 000 hectares of Honduran land had been seriously eroded as a result of misuse by cattle ranchers and slash-and-burn squatters who planted unsuitable food crops.

The export textile manufacturing industry all but wiped out small, Honduran manufacturers, and food processors, whose goods were historically aimed at the domestic market, were also adversely affected.

The mall, named Megaplaza, officially opened in the winter of 2007, and features a large food court with a vast array of Honduran and American fast food companies, several cell phone stores, an arcade, and department stores including Carrion, the largest in Central America.

:: Includes all typical / traditional Honduran food.

About 6 % of the Honduran population are indigenous people sub-divided into small groups as follows: Lenca, Xicaques, Miskitos, Payas, the Ch ' orti ', and others.

The lempira was named after the 16th-century cacique Lempira, a ruler of the indigenous Lenca people, who is renowned in Honduran folklore for leading the ( ultimately unsuccessful ) local native resistance against the Spanish conquistador forces.

The nearby village of San Juan is known for its coffee production and for its proximity to Erandique home to the ancient fortress of Lempira, an indigenous Honduran hero who fought against the Spanish.

86 % of the population is Mestizo or white ( mixture Amerindian and European ), 7 % Amerindian, 4 % Afro Honduran and 3 white.

suggest there are between 800, 000 and 1 million Hondurans living in the United States, nearly 15 % of the Honduran domestic population.

The Honduran population was 77 percent rural in 1960.

By 1992 only 55 percent of the Honduran population continued to live in rural areas.

The World Bank estimates that only about 36 percent of the Honduran population had access to electricity ( 20 percent of the rural population ) in 1987.

It also had the fourteenth highest percentage of Peruvians, at 2. 48 % of all residents ( tied with Glen Cove, New York ,) while Biscayne Park's Honduran community had the twenty-sixth highest percentage of residents, which was at 1. 38 % of the population.

) It is also home to the forty-sixth highest percentage of Ecuadorian residents in the US, at 1. 32 % of the population, as well as being home to the forty-second highest percentage of Honduran, at 1. 11 % ( tied with Atlantic City, New Jersey.

) It's also home to the forty-third highest percentage of Honduran residents in the US, at 1. 09 % of the population ( tied with Fountainbleau.

A population boom began with an influx of Spanish-speaking Mestizo migrants from the Honduran mainland.

With an estimated population of over 200, 000 living in approximately 170 residential areas ( called colonias or barrios ), it is the fourth largest city in the country and the capital of the Honduran department of Atlántida.

While his followers and a large proportion of the population would favour him due to the perceived honesty and integrity of his government, another group would challenge this view, arguing that he pursued a weak economic policy ( artificially maintaining a 2: 1 exchange rate between the Honduran lempira and the US dollar ), ran up large budget deficits and did little to develop investment opportunities in the country.

According to the 2001 Honduran National Census, San Lorenzo is the 20th largest city with a population of 21, 043.

The Taft Administration saw the huge Honduran debt, over $ 120 miilion, as a contributing factor to this instability and began efforts to refinance the largely British debt with provisions for a United States customs receivership or some similar arrangement.

A treaty incorporating the key provisions of this agreement with J. P. Morgan was finally signed in January 1911 and submitted to the Honduran legislature by Dávila.

On the international front, the Honduran government, after years of negotiations, finally concluded an agreement with the British bondholders to liquidate most of the immense national debt.

Because conflicts between these companies had frequently led to support for rival groups in Honduran politics, had produced a border controversy with Guatemala, and may have even contributed to revolutionary disturbances, this merger seemed to promise greater domestic tranquility.

Even in the height of the depression, he continued to make regular payments on the Honduran debt, adhering strictly to the terms of the arrangement with the British bondholders and also satisfying other creditors.

Relations were particularly close with Ubico, who helped Carías reorganize his secret police and also captured and shot the leader of a Honduran uprising who had made the mistake of crossing into Guatemalan territory.

Flores inaugurated International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) programs of reform and modernization of the Honduran Government and economy, with emphasis on maintaining the country's fiscal health and improving international competitiveness.

Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales of the Liberal Party of Honduras won the 27 November 2005 presidential elections with less than a 4 % margin of victory, the smallest margin ever in Honduran electoral history.

The Honduran border with El Salvador crosses the peak of Cerro El Pital, the highest point in El Salvador at over 2700 meters.

This massive hurricane not only battered the Honduran coastline, but engulfed nearly the entire country with its powerful winds and torrential downpours.

Few new jobs have been generated in the formal sector, however, because domestic private sector and foreign investment has dropped and coveted public-sector jobs have been reserved mostly for the small Honduran middle-class with political or military connections.

In 1993 Honduras had three major labor confederations: the Confederation of Honduran Workers ( Confederación de Trabajadores de Honduras — CTH ), claiming a membership of about 160, 000 workers ; the General Workers Central ( Central General de Trabajadores — CGT ), claiming to represent 120, 000 members ; and the Unitary Confederation of Honduran Workers ( Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras — CUTH ), a new confederation formed in May 1992, with an estimated membership of about 30, 000.

The CTH, the nation's largest trade confederation, was formed in 1964 by the nation's largest peasant organization, the National Association of Honduran Peasants ( Asociación Nacional de Campesinos de Honduras — Anach ), and by Honduran unions affiliated with the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers ( Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores — ORIT ), a hemispheric labor organization with close ties to the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations ( AFL-CIO ).

Although Honduran banana production is dominated by multinational giants, such is not the case with coffee, which is grown by about 55, 000 mostly small producers.

The small Honduran firms could not begin to compete with the assembly industry for labor because of the maquiladoras ' relatively high wage scale of close to US $ 4 per day.

A Honduran stock exchange was established in August 1990 with transactions confined to trading debt.

Despite its status as beneficiary of both the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) and the Generalized System of Preferences ( GSP )-- both of which confer duty free status on Honduran imports to the United States — Honduras has run a long-standing trade deficit with the United States.

Following the 2009 ouster of the president, the Honduran military together with other government security forces were allegedly responsible for thousands of allegedly arbitrary detentions and for several forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions of opponents to the de facto government, including members of the Democratic Unification Party.

After the decision was publicised, Israel withheld its ambassador to Honduras and made a formal protest with the Honduran embassy in Tel Aviv.

The departmental capital of Nueva Ocotepeque fell shortly after along with eight other cities, placing the Salvadoran army within striking distance of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa.

This experience helped him get cast to participate in Univision's show of Despierta America, along with Mexico's Fernando Arau and Ana Maria Canseco, Honduran Neyda Sandoval and fellow Puerto Rican Giselle Blondet.