Honduras later joined the Mexican Empire of Agustin de Iturbide, a fact which lasted until the formation of the Federal Republic of Central America in 1823.

Because of his status, most of his family members were forced to flee into Honduras, Guatemala, and the United States, it is uncertain where the remaining Somozas live given the fact that they changed their names to protect their own lives.

He was extremely fond of the local people, and despite the fact that because of his physical infirmity he never set foot on Belizean soil, he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune for the benefit of the people of British Honduras.

In an attempt to return British Honduras to the gold standard, and influenced by the fact that most imports were coming from New Orleans in the USA, a new currency was introduced into British Honduras based on the US dollar, bringing British Honduras into line with Canada.

The New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Company ( NYHRMC ) produced US $ 60 million worth of gold and silver between 1882 and 1954 before discontinuing most of its operations.

In most cases, they were produced by overprinting regular issues with " WAR TAX " or " WAR STAMP ", though the overprint " WAR " was occasionally used ( as in the issues of British Honduras ).

The following British colonies and dominions produced war tax stamps: Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, Canada, Cayman Islands, Ceylon, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Gold Coast, Grenada, Jamaica, Malta, Montserrat, New Zealand, St. Helena, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Turks and Caicos Islands and Virgin Islands.

The Gulf of Honduras is marked by complex dynamics of coastal and open waters, and ocean currents, which have produced a very diverse and unique ecosystem with a wide variety of coastal marine waters, including coastline estuaries, barrier beaches, lagoons, intertidal salt marshes, mangrove forests, seagrass beds, keys and barrier reefs.

Today there are five channels produced in Honduras.

The oil is also produced in Taiwan, Guatemala, Honduras, Brazil, Sri Lanka, India, Argentina, Ecuador, Jamaica, Madagascar, Mexico, and South Africa.

10 were produced, five of which were sold to Honduras, three to China, and one to Brazil.

Only Costa Rica and Haiti issued Tyvek banknotes ; test notes were produced for Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras and Venezuela but never placed in circulation.

On Swan Island, located about 90 miles ( 145 km ) offshore Honduras, Francelia produced peak winds of 60 mph ( 95 km / h ).

Edith produced strong winds across northeastern Nicaragua and eastern Honduras, with Puerto Lempira reporting an unofficial sustained wind of 140 mph ( 225 km / h ).

In Honduras, the hurricane produced 15 foot ( 4. 5 m ) tides and strong winds, while strong waves destroyed 40 fishing boats as well.

The region was an important mining town in the history of Honduras, with enclaves such as Las Animas and El Socorro, which produced gold, silver, copper, tin, lead and zinc.

Belize ( formerly British Honduras ) is a country located on the north eastern coast of Central America and it is the only country in the area where English is the official language, although Creole and Spanish are more commonly spoken.

* 1976 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22, 000.

The arms limitation agreement set a ceiling on the size of each nation's military forces ( 2, 500 men for Honduras ) and included a United States-sponsored pledge to seek foreign assistance in establishing more professional armed forces.

In October 1998, Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras, leaving more than 5, 000 people dead and 1. 5 million displaced.

Hondurans working in the U. S. send more than US $ 2 billion each year to their families in Honduras ; these remittances account for 28. 2 % of Honduras's GDP ( 2007 information

Because of the greater size and relative efficiency of the Salvadoran and Guatemalan industrial sectors, however, Honduras bought far more manufactured products from its neighbors than it sold to them.

Tiny Honduras soon became the tenth largest recipient of United States assistance aid ; total economic and military aid rose to more than US $ 200 million in 1985 and remained at more than US $ 100 million for the rest of the 1980s.

The British deported more than 5, 000 black Caribs to Roatán, an island off the coast of Honduras.

* On February 4, 1976 a major earthquake in Guatemala and Honduras killed more than 22, 000.

* February 4 – In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22, 000.

Honduras is more than five times the size of neighbouring El Salvador, but in 1969 El Salvador had a population that was more than double that of Honduras.

By 1969, more than 300, 000 Salvadorans were living in Honduras.

In Cambodia, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Honduras, the average wage paid by a firm accused of being a sweatshop is more than double the average income in that country's economy.

Even as the Arbenz government was being overthrown, in 1954 a general strike against the company organized by workers in Honduras rapidly paralyzed the country and thanks to the United States ' concern about the events in Guatemala, was settled more favorably for the workers in order to gain fuller leverage for the Guatemala operation.

For instance, whereas small coffee farmers in Honduras are typically charged an 18 % bank rate, a private investment firm in the US has room to offer more ethical loan terms and offer an attractive return to investors.

However, the remote area of British Honduras in which they settled, combined with their largely subsistence way of life, resulted in the Mopán and Kekchí Maya maintaining more of their traditional way of life and becoming less assimilated into the colony than the Maya of the north.

Two days later, the National Congress of Honduras ( in which Zelaya's own party held 62 out of 128 seats, more than any other party ), also voted to dismiss Zelaya.

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.

When the ' liberal caudillo ' learned about this, he left for Honduras to recruit more troops.

In northern areas of its range it occurs from 2, 600 m above sea level or more, in some parts of its range it may not occur below 3, 500 m. In Oaxaca in Mexico it occupies a range of between 1, 700 – 3, 000 m further south in Guatemala it ranges down to 1, 850 m and at the southern end of its range it can be found as low as 1, 000 m in Honduras and in Nicaragua it occupies a belt of forest from 1, 070 and 1, 370 m. They typically inhabit conifer forests, such as ponderosa and sugar pine forests in Arizona, Abies common fir forests, oak, and pine forests in central Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.

The peaceful transition of power was surprising because the onset of the depression had led to the overthrow of governments elsewhere throughout Latin America, in nations with much stronger democratic traditions than those of Honduras.

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.

Before the military buildup began in fiscal year ( FY ) 1980, United States military assistance to Honduras was less than US $ 4 million.

As Honduras entered the 1990s, it did have some factors working in its favor — relative peace and a stronger civilian government with less military interference in the politics and economy of the country than in past years.

Despite these problems, the number of visitors arriving in Honduras rose from fewer than 200, 000 in 1987 to almost 250, 000 in 1989.

Other than seedling trees, the only known commercial cultivars in Nicaragua are R134, R162 and a Yellow Rambutan that lost its name when it was smuggled from Honduras in 2004-2005 ( Frankie, J.

A 2005 article in the Christian Science Monitor states, " For example, in Honduras, the site of the infamous Kathy Lee Gifford sweatshop scandal, the average apparel worker earns $ 13. 10 per day, yet 44 percent of the country's population lives on less than $ 2 per day ...

Rather than the former slaves, it was the Garifuna, Maya, and Mestizos who pioneered agriculture in 19th-century British Honduras.