Name: Geography Now! Honduras
Uploaded: 2020-03-30T03:03:58.000Z
Duration: 10 min 41 s
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Guys! I'm not gonna make any puns in this episode

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at this point for Geography Now cheesy stuff like that is just

Central America is a little bit tricky because on the surface it looks like opening up a bag of potato chips.

When you first look in they all look like potato chips but then when you inspect them a little closer,

you realise some are little bigger, some are little crispier, some are burned, some have a little bit of green.

I love this part of the video because it reveals all the secrets of the country

Honduras is located in Central America, sandwiched between Guatemala and El Salvador on the west and Nicaragua to the south east.

Honduras is also a bi-coastal country with both coasts on the Carribean Sea,

and a small but still existant patch of Pacific Ocean in the south in the Golf of Fonseca.

The country is divided into 18 departments and the capital Tegucigalpa,

is located right in the central Francisco Morazáu Department.

The country has four international airports and the largest and busiest one is

actually not in Tegucigalpa but Ramon Villeda Morales Int. (IATA:SAP)

I mean if you want you can fly to Tegucigalpa's Toncontin international

but it's kinda like dubbed as the second most dangerous airport in the world

due to its horrible location, wedged between dangerous mountains with choppy winds and a narrow runway

It's actually not uncommon to see passengers praying before landing...

They know what they are getting themselves in to!

Honduras just instituted a new economic zone division

in which certain cities will have a distinct free market capitalistic function

with high autonomy and ruled with their own political and judicial systems.

Right now it seems like Amapala on Tigre Island

will be the first to become an autonomous zone.

Others are on the way but it's a little bit too early to tell which ones will be exclusive!

This has been taken in with both praise and criticism!

Praise because based off your economic philosophy it could boost revenue

but criticism because it comes at a cost of your own sovereignty being put in the hands of corporations!

"So if I give you these cities, you promise that it will all trickle down to us right?

Oh yes! All I ask is that you give me the authority to tell them what to do!"

Uh! I still don't like the way you are laughing!

Besides all that, Honduras lays claim to about 20 or so islands most in the Caribbean

and in the south of Honduras they're like:

"OK, I'll take these four and El Salvador, you can take these four."

the famous Islas de la Bahía made up of Roatán, Utila and Guanaja

which has Bonacca cay, the most crowded island in Honduras,

jump a little further east and you have the Swan islands

and if you jump even further north, you hit the completely submurged Misteriosa and Rosario Banks

that lie within Honduras' exclusive economic zone.

Most of the population stays in the west and south areas of the country

In fact, most of the areas along the border with Nicaragua are uninhabited and empty

Otherwise, some notable sights might include places like:

The Copán mayan ruins with hieroglyphic staircases and Mayan ball courts

As well as the Rosalila, a fully replicated Mayan temple

And the Baroque style churches of Tegucigalpa and Comajagua

And see if you can find the legendary White City or the city of the monkey god

which is rumored to be hidden somewhere in the jungles of the east

What else can you find in the jungles of the east?

Now in the simplest way I can put this when it comes to natural catastrophes

"Thanks! I just don't wanna get my hair messed up!"

Yeah, El Salvador is like Honduras' shield that takes all the crazy earthquakes and volcanic eruptions

leaving them with just a smidge of debris and weak aftershocks

First of all! The country is divided into five different geographical landzones

The insular Bay Islands, the North Atlantic Coast, the heavily populated

Occidental Sula Lowlands, and the largest wilderness area in

all of Central America the La Mosquita Jungles in the east

as well as the Pacific south volcanic region.

Occidental means West and the antonym Oriental means East

you can find the UNESCO World Heritage Site

which has the highest concentration of wildlife

like the national animal the Scarlet macaw and the whitetail deer

Now other than a few fertile valleys and plains along the coast

most of Honduras is mountainous at about 80 %

Here you can find the highest peak, the Corro las minas located in the west

Now this means that even though the land is rich and lush with vegetation

Now when it comes to water, although the Coco River is the longest winding south to north

the Ulúa is the most important as it goes from the Sula Valley to the Caribbean allowing transport and trade!

Right next door you can find the largest natural lake Yojoa

Yojoa which actually sits inside a volcanic depression

In the south you can find the two most notable volcanoes