The country borders the North Pacific Ocean to the south and southwest, with Guatemala to the north-northwest and Honduras to the north-northeast.

El Salvador has 545 km of borders, including 342 km of borders with Honduras and 203 km with Guatemala.

Developing countries like India, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Honduras encourage the outsourcing of work from the developed world to factories within their borders in order to provide employment for their people and profits to their employers.

During the nineteenth century the question of the kingdom's borders was a serious issue of international diplomacy between Britain, the United States, Nicaragua and Honduras, and conflicting claims both of the kingdom's reality and its extent were argued in diplomatic exchanges.

Lempira is one of the 18 departments of Honduras, Central America, located in the western part of the country with borders with El Salvador.

Because Central America is a small, densely populated geographic area, with porous national borders, political news travelled quickly, and “ it was impossible to escape the contagion ”, said the right-wing journalist Clemente Marroquín Rojas when the general strike paralyzed the north coast of Honduras in May 1954.

Faced with dwindling supplies of matériel, and having noted the unusually armed borders of Honduras, El Salvador, and other neighbor countries, President Árbenz acted upon the intelligence indications of an imminent paramilitary invasion of Guatemala — confirmed by a defector from Operation PBSUCCESS — and bought matériel in the Eastern Bloc.

Nicaragua, which has not resolved its maritime borders with Honduras or Colombia, disputed Honduras ' legal right to hand over these areas before the ICJ.

The Caribbean coastline has many gulfs and bays: the Gulf of Gonâve, Gulf of Venezuela, Gulf of Darién, Golfo de los Mosquitos, Gulf of Paria and Gulf of Honduras.

During these months, air flowing from the Caribbean has lost most of its precipitation while passing over the mountains in Honduras.

During the period leading up to the conquest of Honduras by Pedro de Alvarado, many indigenous people along the north coast of Honduras were captured and taken as slaves to work on Spain's Caribbean plantations.

As part of the so-called Banana Wars all around the Caribbean, Honduras saw the insertion of American troops in 1903, 1907, 1911, 1912, 1919, 1924 and 1925.

In the Caribbean Sea, the islands of Roatán ( Isla de Roatán ), Utila, and Guanaja together form Islas de la Bahía ( Bay Islands ), one of the eighteen departments into which Honduras is divided.

Honduras lies within the hurricane belt, and the Caribbean coast is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes or tropical storms that travel inland from the Caribbean.

The most important river in Honduras is the Ulúa, which flows 400 kilometers to the Caribbean through the economically important Valle de Sula.

Several large, brackish lagoons open onto the Caribbean in northeast Honduras.

With one of the most strikeprone labor forces in Central America, debt-burdened and aging industrial assets, and a dramatically underdeveloped infrastructure, Honduras, however, has distinct economic disadvantages relative to its Central American and Caribbean neighbors, who compete with Honduras in the same export markets.

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.

González Dávila was authorized by royal decree, and came in from the Caribbean coast of Honduras.

Territorial disputes with Colombia over the Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank ; with respect to the maritime boundary question in the Golfo de Fonseca, the ICJ referred to the line determined by the 1900 Honduras-Nicaragua Mixed Boundary Commission and advised that some tripartite resolution among El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua likely would be required ; maritime boundary dispute with Honduras in the Caribbean Sea ; Nicaragua is sovereign over the Rio San Juan, and by treaty Costa Rica has the right to navigate over part of the river with ' objects of commerce '.

The exception was the Western Caribbean Zone, which included the Caribbean coast and encompassed both semi-independent indigenous polities, runaway slave communities, and settlers, especially English settlers who would eventually form British Honduras ( the modern-day nation of Belize ), a sparsely populated area that was leased by the Guatemalans to Great Britain in eschange to construct a highway that they never finished, and stole and kept that land afterwards.

The music of Honduras varies from Punta ( the local genre of the Garifunas ) to Caribbean music such as salsa, merengue, reggae and reggaeton ( all widely heard, especially in the north ).

Coba traded extensively with other Mayan communities, particularly the ones further south along the Caribbean coast in what is now Belize and Honduras.

The Caribbean Mosquito Coast ( or Miskito Coast ) historically comprised an area along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras, and part of the Western Caribbean Zone.

The British and Miskito definition applied to the whole eastern seaboard of Nicaragua — and even to La Mosquitia in Honduras, i. e., the coast region as far west as the Río Negro or Tinto – the Mosquito Coast more came in the later part of the century to be considered a narrow strip of territory, fronting the Caribbean Sea, and extending from about 11 ° 45 ’ to 14 ° 10 ’ N. It stretched inland for an average distance of, and measured about from north to south.

By the time Mitch made landfall, numerous people were evacuated along the western Caribbean coastline, including 100, 000 in Honduras, 10, 000 in Guatemala, and 20, 000 in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.

Honduras has signed and ratified agreements on Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, and Wetlands.

The Gulf or Bay of Honduras is a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting the coasts of Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.

In May 1638, fresh from his defeat over Kent Island, Claiborne received a commission from the Providence Land Company, who were advised by his old friend Maurice Thomson, to create a new colony on Ruatan Island off the coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea.

A northwestward-moving tropical disturbance through the Caribbean Sea developed into a tropical depression on September 24 north of Honduras.

Located near the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the largest barrier reef in the Caribbean Sea ( second largest worldwide after Australia's Great Barrier Reef ), Roatán has become an important cruise ship and scuba diving destination in Honduras.

In 1849, E. G. Squier negotiated a treaty for the United States to build a canal across Honduras from the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf.

In 1862 100 guests at Willis ' Rooms sampled Japanese Sea slug (= sea cucumber, probably ), kangaroo, guan, curassow and Honduras turkey.

Radio Swan was a pirate radio station based in the Swan Islands, a group of islands in the western Caribbean Sea, near the coastline of Honduras.

Sambo Creek is a traditional Garífuna village east of La Ceiba on the Caribbean Sea north coast of Honduras.

The final storm of the season was a weak system that formed in the western Caribbean Sea on October 20 and curved northwest and then west, paralleling the coast of Honduras but remaining well offshore.

A few weeks later, Honduras and Belize experienced hurricane-force winds and heavy rainfall from a storm that traversed much of the Caribbean Sea.

* 1996's Tropical Storm Kyle-formed in the western Caribbean Sea and made landfall over Guatemala and Honduras as a weakening storm, causing no significant damage.

* Americas / Caribbean Sea: United States, Canada, El Salvador, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Honduras

The river originates near San Marcos de Colón in Honduras, and flows 750 kilometers, the middle and lower reaches forming the Honduras-Nicaragua border and flows into the Caribbean Sea.

The Swan Islands, or Islas Santanilla, are a chain of three islands located in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, approximately ninety miles off the coastline of Honduras, with a land area of.

It made landfalls on Paraguaná, Guajira, and after tracking across the Caribbean Sea, another near Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Nicaragua – Honduras border as a 100 mph Category 2.

* Cayo Gorda, a small island of Honduras in Caribbean Sea