What kind of country is Honduras? Why haven't I even heard of it before?
The Republic of Honduras is located in the north of Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea to the north, bordering Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, with a land area of 112,500 square kilometers, about the size of Jiangsu Province, and a total population of about 10 million.
The country is divided into 18 provinces, the capital is Tegucigalpa, the national flower city is carnation, and the official language is Spanish. The economic state of Honduras is at the lower middle level in Central America.
In 2012, Honduras' per capita GDP was $2,323, and by 2022, it will be $29.657 billion, and GDP per capita will be $283 billion, an increase of only $500 in ten years.
The economy of Honduras is mainly agricultural, with a relatively weak industrial base, the main industries are coffee cultivation, banana cultivation, shrimp and fish farming, palm oil industry and garment processing industry. Thereinto. It accounts for 60% of Honduras' agricultural exports.
Honduras has a tropical climate, with an average annual temperature of 23 degrees Celsius, and the coastal plain is a tropical rainforest climate, with abundant rainfall, and some areas will fall "fish rain" due to tornadoes between May and July, which is what we often call pie in the sky.
The terrain of Honduras is mainly mountainous, with narrow plains on the coast, forest area about half of the country's area, rich in high-quality wood, mineral deposits of silver, gold, lead, zinc, copper, etc.
Honduras also has two World Heritage Sites, one is the Mayan ruins of the department of Copán and the other is the Platano River Biosphere Reserve.
Copan was one of the most important city-states of the classical period of the Maya civilization, and at the time it was the southernmost of the Maya states.
Recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1980, the Platano River Biosphere Reserve is located on the Caribbean coast with an area of 5,250 square kilometers.
The reserve has more than 2,000 species of flora and fauna, and many endangered species are preserved.
It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1982 and twice on the List of World Heritage in Danger. This reserve is also part of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor that runs south from Mexico to Central America.
In addition, the Great Blue Grotto of Honduras, located about 96.5 kilometers off the coast of Belize, is also a world-famous tourist attraction. The Great Blue Cave has a circular appearance, with a diameter of about 304 meters and a depth of about 145 meters, and is one of the ten geological wonders of the world.