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Honduras

Honduras Geography

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Honduras is dominated by mountainous, forested terrain across most of its interior, with only narrow lowland strips along its Pacific and Caribbean coasts -- the country has a much longer Caribbean coastline than Pacific, giving it a strong orientation toward the Caribbean side both geographically and culturally.

The Bay Islands -- Roatán, Utila, and Guanaja -- sit off the northern Caribbean coast atop the Bonacca Ridge, part of the same underwater mountain chain, and are fringed by the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second-largest barrier reef system in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

La Mosquitia, in the remote northeast bordering Nicaragua, is one of the largest remaining stretches of undisturbed rainforest in Central America, largely inaccessible by road, while the western highlands around Copán hold Honduras's most significant Maya ruins near the Guatemalan border.

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