PEOPLE OF HONDURAS
The local natives of Hondurans are lovingly known as catrachos. They reside along the central and western upland valley and along the La Costa Norte, where most of the settlements resort. South and east are less inhabited.
Hondurans belong to the mestizos community that is related to the Spanish-group of people belonging to the Indian-Spanish heritage. Amerindians cover a minor portion of the population. Spanish is the local language spoken here while English is even accepted in the Bay Island area. The other local languages spoken here are Lenca, Miskitu, Garifuna, and many others.
The religion thriving in this area relates to the evidence of the Roman Catholicism where most of the area is marked with the presence of ornate churches, belonging to the colonial era.
Afro- and Anglo-Antilleans who traveled from the Caribbean island are well placed in the region of north coast and the Bay Islands. Garífuna, or Black Caribs, nestle along the coastal villages while a minor portion of the German and Middle Eastern origins are located near the northern coast.
The Hondurans are friendly in nature by are socially uneducated due to their poor status.
ARTS, CULTURE AND MUSIC OF HONDURAS
Art: Visit the Copan museum , where one may come across wonderful exhibits along with architectural pieces left behind during the Mayan time.
Culture: Handshakes is quite a usual way as far as greeting somebody is concerned. The greeting is between men and women both who indulge in a prolonged handshake gesture. One may come across a Spanish phrase called si Dios quiere which means God willing, which is relatively used when a commitment is made, be it personal or official. The local natives value their family and customs above anything else. Even above any kind of business proposals.
Music: Get an indigenous combination of the European and African basics while listening to the music that originated in Honduras. The native musical instruments widely popular in this region are marimba, conch shell, guitar, accordion, caramba and marimba. Listen to the musical rhythm played by an ethnic group; named Lenca that still refreshes the melody of oldies of the long-gone era.
The Garifunas carry a vibrant tradition while the group of Miskitos are known to carry their own musical rhythm, along with the native dance of guancasco that are popularly witnessed in this region.
Honduran folk music originated from the Spanish melody while the popular music of the region seems to gain its influence from the Mexican and the American origin.
Visit the province of ancient capital of Comayagua, which is an essential hub to the contemporary Honduran music, where the College for Fine Arts resides.
The Garifuna seems to have derived from the Nigerian slaves who escaped from St. Vincent to the region of Central America when the British conquered the region.
Various forms of Garifuna folk music and dance are chumba and hunguhungu, in association with the punta. Women usually resort to music's like eremwu eu and abaimajani, while men listen to laremuna wadauman a typical work song. The assorted ranges of dance music accepted in the region are matamuerte, gunchei, charikawi and sambai.
FLAG OF HONDURAS
This flag of Honduras was officially accepted in the month of January 9, 1866. The flag of Honduras relates well to the design of United States of Central America flag. The flag is designed with three equal parallel bands; wherein the topmost and the bottom most band, colored in blue denote the presence of two major seas in our province namely the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The blue five-pointed stars are scattered in the middle portion of the white band in a typical X pattern, which denotes the existing five nations of the previous United States of Central America after the province emerged its victory and autonomy from the Spain domination. They were El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala nation.
ECONOMY OF HONDURAS
Honduras still remains as one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere region that is reliant basically on the U.S. aid. The banana plantation supports the Honduras economy, which is cultivated along the northern coast that was set up by the United Fruit Company and the Standard Fruit Company, the two major US Companies who ventured in this region.
The commodities that are exported from this region are bananas, coffee, timber, minerals (Silver, lead, zinc), beef, and seafood. The agricultural industry supports the economy efficiently. The major crops that are produced here are corns, beans, rice, and sugarcane.
Honduras is known to have in store rich reserves of forest resources and mineral deposits. Silver, lead, zinc, iron, gold, cadmium, antimony, and copper are some of the possessions the country preserves in its stocks.
Several industries that are located in the area of San Pedro Sula are chiefly based on sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, lumber, and wood products.
Honduras has a unicameral legislature with about 128 members that stay for a period of four years. The province is separated into 18 main administrative departments namely Atlántida Choluteca, Colón, Comayagua, Copán, Cortés, El Paraíso, Francisco Morazán, Gracias a Dios, Intibucá, Islas de la Bahía, La Paz, Lempira, Ocotepeque, Olancho, Santa Bárbara, Valle and Yoro.
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