The back and sides of a particular guitar are typically made of the same wood ; Brazilian or East Indian rosewood and Honduras mahogany are traditional choices, however, maple has been prized for the figuring that can be seen when it is cut in a certain way ( such as " flame " and " quilt " patterns ).

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.

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

Archaeologists have demonstrated that Honduras has a multi-ethnic prehistory.

This area of river valleys and coastal plains, which most Honduras call " the north coast ," or simply " the coast ," has traditionally been Honduras's most exploited region.

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.

Honduras has signed, but not ratified the Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol.

Honduras has extensive forest, marine, and mineral resources, although widespread slash and burn agricultural methods continue to destroy Honduran forests.

The country's once abundant forest resources have also been dramatically reduced, and Honduras has not derived economically significant income from mineral resources since the 19th century.

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.

Overall unemployment has been exacerbated by an influx of refugees from the wars in neighboring countries, attracted to Honduras, ironically, by its relatively low population density and relative peace.

Despite these tax increases, compared to developed countries, Honduras has low tax rates with particularly low property taxes.

Honduras has long been heavily unionized.

Coffee production in Honduras has been high despite relatively low independent yields because of the large numbers of producers.

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.

In subsequent summits ( held every 6 months ), Honduras has continued to work with the other Central American countries on issues of common concern.

New Utopia has claimed for a number of years to be on the verge of commencing construction of an artificial island territory located approximately midway between Honduras and Cuba, on the Misteriosa Bank but no such project has yet been undertaken.

Nicaragua has submitted three territorial disputes, one with Honduras another with Colombia, and the third with Costa Rica to the International Court of Justice for resolution.

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 '.

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Between 2005 and 2009, Cuba, Haiti, and Honduras were the top three recipients of Brazilian assistance, receiving over $ 50 million annually.

By 1912, three companies dominated the banana trade in Honduras: Samuel Zemurray's Cuyamel Fruit Company, Vaccaro Brothers and Company and the United Fruit Company ; all of which tended to be vertically integrated, owning their own lands and railroad companies and ship lines such as United's " Great White Fleet ".

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.

In the early 1990s, the confederation had three major components: the 45, 000-member Federation of Unions of National Workers of Honduras ( Federación Sindical de Trabajadores Nacionales de Honduras — Fesitranh ); the 22, 000 member Central Federation of Honduran Free Trade Unions ( Federación Central de Sindicatos Libres de Honduras ); and the 2, 200-member Federation of National Maritime Unions of Honduras ( Federación de Sindicales Marítimas Nacionales de Honduras ).

Honduras and other Central American countries united to drive him out of Nicaragua in 1857, after which a period of three decades of Conservative rule ensued.

In 1982 in Honduras, a group of nine Salvadorans and Nicaraguans destroyed a main electrical power station, leaving Tegucigalpa, the capital city, for three days without power.

* In 1998, three agencies joined forces to conduct a sting operation when they successfully recovered the Honduras Goodwill Moon Rock from a vault in Miami.

Britain had large and indefinite territorial claims in three regions: British Honduras ( present-day Belize ), the Mosquito Coast ( the region along the Atlantic coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras ) and the Bay Islands ( now part of Honduras ).

The school year in Honduras runs from early August to late May for a total of ten months and is split into three terms.

In the beginning it was an instrument which came into force for only three states ( Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras ) on 1 May 1990.

Protestant churches are structured into three confederacies: The Shepherds ' Association of Honduras, the Evangelical Brotherhood of Honduras and the Apostolic Network of Honduras.

To illustrate these development strategies, three cases of land use intensification are presented: horticultural production in the Guatemalan highlands, coffee production in Honduras, the “ farmer to farmer ” movement in Nicaragua.

On September 24, 1984 the New York Times reported that the Peace Corps planned to double the number of volunteers serving in Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Belize to 1, 200 workers over the next three years.

It disclosed a " distinct pattern " of abuses by the contras, including: " attacks on purely civilian targets resulting in the killing of unarmed men, woman, children and the elderly ; – premeditated acts of brutality including rapes, beatings, mutilations and torture ; – and individual and mass kidnappings of civilians for the purpose of forced recruitment into the Contra forces and the creation of a hostage refugee population in Honduras ; – assaults on economic and social targets such as farms, cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters ; – intimidation of civilians who participate or cooperate in government or community programs such as distribution of subsidized food products, education and local self-defense militias ; – and kidnapping, intimidation, and even murder of religious leaders who support the government, including priests and clergy-trained lay pastors.

Analysts also note, however, that Honduras is at a distinct disadvantage relative to its Central American neighbors because of its poor transportation system.

The Mexican Yew ( T. globosa, native to eastern Mexico south to Honduras ) is also relatively distinct with foliage intermediate between Sumatran Yew and the other species.

Entertainment and cultural displays by artists from countries such as Peru, Honduras, Argentina, Mexico and Colombia offer an authentic look at a culture where countries share language, food and sounds, but have very distinct traditions.

The British government controlled the neighboring regions of British Honduras ( now Belize ) and the Mosquito Coast ( now part of Nicaragua ) and had considerable strategic and economic interest in the construction of an inter-oceanic canal through Central America.

On October 8, the Government of Honduras declared a red alert for all northern regions.

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As a result, numerous players from Serbia, Brazil, Honduras, and other Latin American regions make up the foreign players in the Chinese league.

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