Honduras: Geography#
| Location | Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean), between El Salvador and Nicaragua |
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| Geographic Coordinates | 15 00 N, 86 30 W 15.0,-86.5 |
| Area | total: 112,090 sq km land: 111,890 sq km water: 200 sq km We are unable to verify those figures from Factbook, since the 6 main sources we used for checking give different figures as follows: Factbook: 112090 DBpedia: 112090 Geoname: 112090 Infoplease: 112090 Britannica: 112492 Wolfram: 112090 Attempted Explanation: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to office nospam@TUGraz.at @global-geography.org |
| Land boundaries | total: 1,575 km border countries: Guatemala 244 km, El Salvador 391 km, Nicaragua 940 km |
| Coastline | Caribbean Sea 669 km; Gulf of Fonseca 163 km |
| Elevation Extremes | lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: Cerro Las Minas 2,870 m |
| Highest Mountains | According to Wolfram: Cerro Las Minas 2870 m According to Geonames:Cerro Las Minas 2870 m; Cerro El Pital 2730 m; Pico Bonito 2300 m List verified partially Attempted Explanation: Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to office nospam@TUGraz.at @global-geography.org |
| Terrain | mostly mountains in interior, narrow coastal plains |
| Natural Hazards | frequent, but generally mild, earthquakes; extremely susceptible to damaging hurricanes and floods along the Caribbean coast |
| Natural Resource | timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, antimony, coal, fish, hydropower |
| Land Use | arable land: 9.07% permanent crops: 3.91% other: 87.02% (2011) |
| Climate | subtropical in lowlands, temperate in mountains |
| Irrigated Land | 878.5 sq km (2007) |
| Renewable Water Resources | 95.93 cu km (2011) |
| Environment_CurrentIssues | urban population expanding; deforestation results from logging and the clearing of land for agricultural purposes; further land degradation and soil erosion hastened by uncontrolled development and improper land use practices such as farming of marginal lands; mining activities polluting Lago de Yojoa (the country's largest source of fresh water), as well as several rivers and streams, with heavy metals |
| Environment - international agreements | party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
| Large Cities | Tegucigalpa; San Pedro Sula; Choloma; La Ceiba; El Progreso [Verified] Important Cities |
| Geography-note | has only a short Pacific coast but a long Caribbean shoreline, including the virtually uninhabited eastern Mosquito Coast |