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La Ceiba (Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈsejβa]) is a municipality, the capital of the Honduran department of Atlántida and a port city on the northern coast of Honduras in Central America. It is located on the southern edge of the Caribbean , forming part of the south eastern boundary of the Gulf of Honduras .
249,542 km 2 (96,349 sq mi) A map of Honduras. Honduras is a country in Central America. Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean. Guatemala lies to the west, Nicaragua south east and El Salvador to the south west. Honduras is the second largest Central American republic, with a total area of 112,890 square kilometres ...
Garifuna. The Cayos Cochinos or Cochinos Cays consist of two small islands ( Cayo Menor and Cayo Grande) and 13 smaller coral cays situated 30 kilometres (19 mi) northeast of La Ceiba on the northern shores of Honduras. Although geographically separate, they belong to the Bay Islands department and are part of the Roatán municipality.
Atlántida ( Spanish pronunciation: [aˈtlantiða]) is a department located on the north Caribbean shore of Honduras. The capital is the port city of La Ceiba . In the past few decades, tourism has become the most important legitimate economic source for the coastal area. In 2005 it had an estimated population of about 372,532 people.
Cordillera Nombre de Dios mountains in Pico Bonito taken from La Ceiba. Pico Bonito National Park is located on the northern area of Honduras, in the mountain range called Cordillera Nombre de Dios, Pico Bonito is a mountain located in the municipality of El Porvenir, near the coastal city of La Ceiba in Honduras. [2]
Evolution of Honduras's territorial organization. 1825: The constitutional congress convened in that year orders that the state be divided into seven departments: Comayagua, Denver, Santa Bárbara, Tegucigalpa, Choluteca, Yoro, Olancho, and Gracias (later renamed Lempira). 1834: An extraordinary constitutional assembly reduces the number of ...
Guanaja. / 16.467°N 85.883°W / 16.467; -85.883. Guanaja is one of the Bay Islands of Honduras and is in the Caribbean. It is about 70 kilometres (43 mi) off the north coast of Honduras, and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) from the island of Roatan. One of the cays off Guanaja, also called Guanaja or Bonacca or Low Cay (or just simply, The Cay ...
Sambo Creek. / 15.79167°N 86.63083°W / 15.79167; -86.63083. Sambo Creek is a traditional Garífuna village 15 kilometres (9 mi) east of La Ceiba on the Caribbean Sea north coast of Honduras. [2]