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Honduras

Honduras. By: Josue R. Cuevas. Agenda:. History and Geography Education Economy Infrastructure Industry. By: Josue R. Cuevas. History and Geography Is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as  Spanish Honduras  to differentiate it from  British Honduras (now Belize).

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Honduras

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  1. Honduras By: Josue R. Cuevas

  2. Agenda: History and Geography Education Economy Infrastructure Industry By: Josue R. Cuevas

  3. History and Geography Is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras(now Belize). Bordered to the west by Guatemala, southwest by El Salvador, southeast by Nicaragua, south by the Gulf of Fonseca and north by the Gulf of Honduras (Caribbean Sea). By: Josue R. Cuevas

  4. With a size and population of approximately 112,492.5 km² and eight million respectively (90% mixture of European and American Indian, 7% Amerindian, 2% Black and 1% White), its capital is Tegucigalpa. By: Josue R. Cuevas

  5. Honduras has a multi-ethnic prehistory. Probably the most important is the Mayan presence around the city of Copan (near to the border with Guatemala). This population disappear around 1200 and when Christopher Columbus reached the Bay Islands on the coast of Honduras in 1502, by that time only Lencas and Ch’orti’ population ruled Honduras (which made the Spanish colonization easier). By: Josue R. Cuevas

  6. By September 15th 1821 the Spanish colony granted independency to Honduras with the rest of the Central-American provinces (because the local population fought for it for about 300 years) By: Josue R. Cuevas

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  10. After more than 100 years Honduras was involved again in a war with El Salvador in 1969 because of border issues; after Honduras won the war the country was ruled by military forcers, by 1979 the country returned to civilian rule (celebrated by general elections in 1981 where Roberto Suazo Cordoba won). By: Josue R. Cuevas

  11. Since the 1980’s the guerrilla in Nicaragua and continues threads from other countries has forced Honduras to spend large amount if its budget in military development ,becoming one the most powerful and feared armies in Central-America nowadays (army used by USA government for the invasion of Iraq and considered as an elite force during the invasion) By: Josue R. Cuevas

  12. Education With a net primary enrollment rate of 92.5% unfortunately the completion rate is approximately 45%. Above 80% of the population is literate with education that include bilingual (Spanish-English) or even trilingual (Spanish-English-German/Turkish) schools. By: Josue R. Cuevas

  13. With more than 10 private universities and just one public university, higher education in Honduras is considered one of the best in the Latin America. Honduras has the best universities for agronomy and industrial education in Central America (Zamorano and UNITEC universities respectively). However, master and PhD programs are not included in this educational systems. By: Josue R. Cuevas

  14. Economy The economy has a continuous but slowly grow, but the distribution of the wealth remains very polarized with average wages remaining very slow (something that changes during Mel Zelaya government in 2006-2009); however more than 50% of the population still remains below of the poverty line, though the average grow averaged 7%, one of the most successful growths in Latin America. By: Josue R. Cuevas

  15. With a about 30% of unemployment rate (which represents about 1.5 million people). Honduras is considered the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere after Haiti and Nicaragua. After years of declining against the U.S. dollar the Lempira has stabilized at around 19 Lempiras per dollar. In June 2008 the exchange rate between United States Dollars and Honduran Lempiras was approximately 1 to 18.85. The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in Honduras is estimated in 33.371 billion us dollars in total and 4,175 us dollars per capita. By: Josue R. Cuevas

  16. A human development index (HDI) equal to 0.604 makes Honduras the country number 106 in terms of education and life expectancy in the world. A great portion of the income in Honduras is thanks to tourism specially in places such as Bay Island, Cortes, Gracias a Dios, etc. By: Josue R. Cuevas

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  18. Infrastructure • More than half of the energy supply in Honduras is run by private sector, the challenges in this area are: • How to finance investment • Re-balance tariffs and environmental concerns during construction of hydroelectric plants • Improve access to rural areas. Transportation in Honduras consist of: 699km of railway (which was build for agriculture proposes but stolen by international organizations), 13,890 km of roadways, 7 ports and harbors, 112 airports (where only 12 of them are paved and only 3 of them are for commercial airlines) By: Josue R. Cuevas

  19. Many national and international non-governmental organizations have a history of working on water and sanitation projects in Honduras, where one of the most important is CARE international, which has many projects for natural disasters emergency response and development in Honduras (Rodolfo Cuevas: formal CEO in Honduras) By: Josue R. Cuevas

  20. Industry By 2000 Industry supplied about 32% of the Honduras’ total GDP, providing about 21% of the total work force in the country. This industry includes textiles (which is the largest one), automobile panels, furniture, construction supplies, plastic, processed food, shoes, beer and soft drinks, oils and agriculture (where the largest ones are the banana and coffee). By: Josue R. Cuevas

  21. Assembly plant operations developed in the 70’s made Honduras one of the favorite places for foreign industries investment (because of the free trade zone established in Puerto Cortes-Honduras). By 2002 Honduras was the second largest exporter on textile items on the US market. By: Josue R. Cuevas

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  23. In 2009, because of the military takeover Honduras experienced a political and economical crisis, the country had mass protests and fights between the people and the government. Many industries experienced dramatic drops in their income; representing reduction of the work force. By: Josue R. Cuevas

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  25. The political crisis meant for the construction industry represented a lost of $201 million (34% drop compared with 2008), and a lost of 30,000 jobs for in 2009. However, the apparel industry (textile) said that the situation was as usual, since most of the companies have long term contract for supplying US and European markets, and are exempt of any political regulation. By: Josue R. Cuevas

  26. ‘’Thank you very much for your attention’’ ‘’Gracias porsuatencion’’ ‘’謝謝你們’’ By: Josue R. Cuevas

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