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Its area is just over 112,000 square kilometres (43,000 sq mi) with an estimated population of almost 8 million inhabitants. The nation is currently divided into 18 departments (departamentos). The capital city of Honduras is Tegucigalpa.
Toncontín Airport (IATA: TGU, ICAO: MHTG) formerly Toncontín International Airport, also known as Teniente Coronel Hernán Acosta Mejía Airport is a civil and military airport located 6 km (4 mi) from the centre of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The History Channel programme Most Extreme Airports ranks it as the second most extreme airport in the ...
Tegucigalpa (UK: / t ɛ ˌ ɡ uː s ɪ ˈ ɡ æ l p ə / [9] US: / t ə ˌ-/ [10] [11] Spanish: [teɣusiˈɣalpa])—formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District (Spanish: Tegucigalpa, Municipio del Distrito Central or Tegucigalpa, M.D.C. [12]), and colloquially referred to as Tegus or Teguz [13] —is the capital and largest city of Honduras along with its sister city, Comayagüela.
Honducor was created as part of legislation 120–93 in September 1993, and was implemented according to regulation 004521-A. Honducor began its operations in Honduras in September 1993.
The extreme southeastern portion of the department has a Pacific dry forest environment, while the northern portion contains the Montaña de la Flor, home to the Jicaque people. Francisco Morazán department covers a total surface area of 7,946 km 2 (3,068 sq mi) and, in 2005, had an estimated population of 1,680,700 people.
The last day (a Saturday) is known as Noche Veneciana ('Venice Night'). 15 August is a local holiday in honor of the Virgen de la Asunción (Puerto Cortés's local patroness saint). In September 2001, the Laguna de Alvarado Bridge was rebuilt and inaugurated after the old bridge, a 50-year-old structure, was badly damaged by Hurricane Mitch in ...
Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, San Juan, 1938; Cámara de Comercio de Puerto Rico (formerly a branch of the Federal Land Bank of Baltimore), San Juan, 1926; Ceiba Fire Station, Ceiba, 1954; Jacinto Lopez Martinez Grammar School, Dorado, 1925; Maximiliano Merced Fire Station, Aguas Buenas, 1955; Mayagüez Main Post Office, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico ...
Honduras, [a] officially the Republic of Honduras, [b] is a country in Central America.It 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.