Honduras Travel

About half of the electricity sector in Honduras is privately owned. The remaining generation capacity) is run by ENEE (Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica). Key challenges in the sector are:

• How to finance investments in generation and transmission in the absence of either a financially healthy utility or of concessionary funds by external donors for these types of investments;
• How to re-balance tariffs, cut arrears and reduce commercial losses – including electricity theft – without fostering social unrest; and
• How to reconcile environmental concerns with the government’s objective to build two new large dams and associated hydropower plants.
• How to improve access in rural areas.

Roatan to największa island archipelago islands Bahia, położona between islands utile and Guanaja. Roatan lies near largest coral reefs Sea Caribbean. Island is important center tourist Honduras especially Sailing and diving. Outside tourism main source income inhabitants is fisheries.

* Islas de la Bahia – Utila, Guanaja and Roatan. Three islands on the Caribbean side, whose visit to snorkeling and / or dipping an absolute must.
* Copán – One of the most impressive ruins of the Mayan era, particularly known for its well-preserved sculptures.
* Lake Yojoa – The largest lake in Honduras, which unfortunately is heavily polluted.
* Omoa
* Trujillo – Here is Columbus first landed on American mainland.

Tela – a popular Caribbean resort. From a viewing platform offers an unforgettable sight on the Bay of Tela.

* Cayos Cochinos – a marine national park with the untouched reefs in the region

Honduras has five registered political parties: PNH, PLH, Social Democrats (Partido Innovación Nacional y Social Demócrata: PINU-SD), Social Christians (Partido Demócrata-Cristiano: DC), and Democrat Unification (Partido Unificación Democrática: UD). The PNH and PLH have ruled the country for decades. In the last years, Honduras has had five Liberal presidents: Roberto Suazo Córdova, José Azcona del Hoyo, Carlos Roberto Reina, Carlos Roberto Flores and Manuel Zelaya, and two Nationalists: Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero and Ricardo Maduro.

The elections have been full of controversies, including questions about whether Azcona was born in Honduras or Spain, and whether Maduro should have been able to stand given he was born in Panama.

The Spanish used at least three different terms to refer to the area that became the Central American country of Honduras.

• Guaymuras – a name Columbus provided for a town near modern Trujillo. Bartolomé de las Casas subsequently generalized it to apply to the whole colony.
• Higueras – a reference to the gourds that come from the Jicaro tree, many of which were found floating in the waters off the northwest coast of Honduras.
• Honduras – literally “depths” in Spanish. Columbus is traditionally quoted as having written Gracias a Dios que hemos salido de esas Honduras (English: “Thank God we have come out of those depths”) while along the northeastern coast of Honduras.

Town fairs and celebrations are held throughout the year – the largest are between February and August. While the coastal lowlands are warm year-round, the mountainous interior can be cool and rainy (especially between May and October). On the Caribbean coast, it can rain year-round though flooding only occasionally impedes travel. The best time of the year to visit is between February and March, when the climate is relatively dry but the vegetation is still lush.

Tegucigalpa (Tegus for short) is the capital city of Honduras (together with Comayagüela) and is also the country’s largest city. Tegucigalpa is also the capital of Honduras’s Francisco Morazán department.

Honduras (pronounced /hɒnˈd(j)ʊərəs/; in Spanish, República de Honduras Spanish pronunciation: [onˈduɾas]) is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize).^[1] The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.