Honduras, Not Just a Place.: noviembre 2015

jueves, 19 de noviembre de 2015

Honduras Literature

Honduras literature has poets, novelists and storytellers of remarkable quality in different periods of the history of this Central American country.
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, more noteworthy writers like Froylán Turcios and the modernist poet, Juan Ramon Molina. Lucila Gamero (1873-1964) is the most important novelist of romanticism in Honduras. While green Imprisonment Ramón Amaya Amador, is the novel par excellence with which the literature of social realism in the country was inaugurated. Poets Oscar Acosta, Roberto Sosa, Rigoberto Paredes, Jose Adan Castelar, Alexis Ramirez and Jose Luis Quesada, along with narrators as Julio Escoto, Eduardo Bähr - story book, The Tale of the war - and Ernesto Bondy Reyes - "Women ugly and restorer "- among others and others are opening new writers -literaria and generational perspectives on how to make the national literary and face made from the 60s, 70s and today. You can not ignore the renowned writers Oscar Amaya with her latest tale of prícipes The Prodigy; Galel Cardenas with his latest novel water wall; Denia novelist Nelson Moncada, an outstanding realistic style with an innovative magical touch in his novel "The Return of Wetback," based on testimony awarded in Australia; in this novel, first in Honduran literature, use of some terms of Spanglish is made.
Helen Umaña is one of the few Honduran writers who focused his literary work to the essay and literary criticism, apart from the historian Leticia Oyuela, who has written essays on painting and has published several books on the history of Honduras.

Crafts in Honduras.

In Honduras a wide variety of fine crafts are made. The cottage industry organized in most cases in the form of cooperatives, is widespread throughout the country , and contributes greatly to the development of the national economy.

  Mud and clay dishes, vases , bowls and vases are made. Bamboo and wicker furniture and baskets are made. The wood is transformed into trunks , fruit and dining sets and palm baskets, hats, fans and wallets.


Copan few crafts are produced locally , but here can you find the most complete range of crafts and sourvenir produced in Honduras , that in different stores that are dedicated to the people around .

In El Progreso is Imapro , handicraft school where you can watch the students artesanostallar highly artistic pieces in mahogany and cedar. Best of all is that there is also a large variety of pieces on display that can be purchased .

 Santa Barbara reed fabric plays a unifying social function , for men, women and children work alike. Reeds grown men , women and children, and weave the fibers processed objects , as this container violets and potpourri of craft Santa Barbara

miércoles, 18 de noviembre de 2015

Joya grande zoo

Located in Santa Cruz de Yojoa , in the department of Cortés , an hour and a half from San Pedro Sula , one of the main cities of Honduras.

The Joya Grande Zoo is a park that favors us an area for extreme sports . As its name says it is a jewel that has become one pole in the tourist development of Honduras.

The amusement park and zoo Joya Grande has emerged as one of the major attractions that, among other things , displays 500 animals of 59 species and offers games for thrill seekers as the canopy .

The "animal offer " contains , for example, 48 cats, of which 14 are tigers, 13 lions, cougars 9 , 8 jaguars, ocelots and 3 1 tigrillo.

CUEVAS DE TALGUA (COMAYAGUA)

The talgua caves ( origin Lenca word meaning Tal: cave and gua : water) are located in the Sierra Agalta National Park , in the town of Catacamas , Olancho Department ( only 10 kilometers of paved road from the village Catacamas ).

Scientists agree that the majesty of this natural cavity molded about a million years ago by the undercurrents Pinabete River, which on leaving the depths of the hill merges with the Rio Talgua. In this basin may be several archaeological sites, witness the many human settlements in the area for nearly three thousand years.


Among all the discoveries that have surprised this region is the ossuary of the talgua caves. The importance of this burial is that in Honduras have discovered few burial caves of the pre-Hispanic period, and these caves are the first country to be The The discovery took place in April 1994.