Hog Cays or Callos Cochinos

Honduras Best Shots

The National Stadium of Tegucigalpa was built during the administration of Tiburcio Carías Andino. The stadium wasHonduras national football team's home stadium in the FIFA World Cup qualification for many years. In 1981, the stadium was host to 6 CONCACAF nations (Honduras, Mexico, El Salvador, Canada, Haiti and Cuba) for Spain 1982's final round of the World Cup qualifying football games that saw Honduras qualify for the first time to the World Cup.

Part of the reef  Callos Cochinos

Honduras culture

The wealth of cultural expression in Honduras owes its origins primarily to being a part of Latin America but also to the multi-ethnicnature of the country. The population comprises 85% Mestizo, 8% Caucasian, 6% Amerindian, and 1% Black. This influences all facets of the culture: customs, practices, ways of dressing, religion, rituals, codes of behavior and belief systems

Actual President

Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado

Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado (Gracias, Lempira Department, Honduras, October 25, 1968) is a Honduran lawyer, Fifty-fifth current constitutional president of the Republic

of Honduras. His term began on January 27, 2014 and ends on January 27 2018.

He was a deputy of the National Congress by the Department of Lempira from 1998 to 2002 and president of the National Congress between 2010 and 2013.


On November 24 he was elected president of Honduras in Honduras general election of 2013 by 36%,participated in an election where 61% of the population.


Takeover 
Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, on January 27, 2014, became the Fifty-fifth President of the Republic of Honduras; to be imposed on the presidential sash and credited and having sworn on the Constitution his oath of office, to the Honduran people. Among the guests at the celebration were present, SM Felipe de Borbon, by that time Prince of Asturias, constitutional President Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica, Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia constitutional President Ricardo Martinelli constitutional President of Panama, President Danilo Medina Dominican Republic, representative of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga, President Ma Ying-Jeou of Taiwan, Rosa Virginia Chávez, daughter of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and her husband Jorge Arreaza, as representatives of the Republic of Venezuela, Diplomatic Corps from friendly countries, President Outgoing Mr. Porfirio Lobo Sosa, along with former Honduran presidents Rafael Leonardo Callejas and his wife Norma Gaborit Callejas; Ricardo Maduro and his wife Melissa Callejas, Archbishop Romulo Emiliani representative of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa, Pastor Alberto Solorzano, representing the Evangelical Fellowship of Honduras, among others.31

In his inaugural speech, Hernandez said; "Today we will begin to deliver for the people, we will consult the decisions for the good of the people". He reiterated his typical phrase used in a political campaign: "Juan Orlando Hernández I'll do whatever I have to do to get peace and quiet of my people." He promised to reduce the threats of extortion and the so-called war tax. He said that increase the number of elements of the military police and the enactment of the Police TIGERS ". He added that accelerate clearance of public institutions. He said that given the high rates of violence prevailing in the country the government counteract applying "zero tolerance".

Fauna

The fauna is rich and varied being the most common of arboreal life and living in the lake water streams. Large animals are not numerous but there are hundreds of species of reptiles, amphibians and birds; lizards and many varieties of fish in the streams. Monkeys, bats and myriads of birds abound in the trees. Since no cold season, many varieties of insects swarm continuously: wasps, ants, gnats, mosquitoes, gnats and others. Among the mammals are: "Danto" or Tapir (Tapirus bairdii), collared peccary (Tayassu peccary), Jagüilla (His americanensis), Tiger or jaguar (Felis onca), puma (Felis concolor), ocelot (Felis pardalis) Wildcat or Caucel (Felis wiedii) Yaguarundi or small puma (Felis yaguaroundi), bat (Vampirus spectrum), coati only (Nasua narica), raccoon (Procyon lotor), Anteater (giant anteater), etc. The birdlife is varied and abundant among which are: hummingbirds and sparrows in more than 20 different species; the widow (Trogon rufus), the woodpecker (Phleoceastes guatemalensis), the owl (spectacled owl), the owl (mottled owl), the peak Toucan or knife (Rhanfastus sulfuratus and Pteroglosus torcuatus), yellow-naped parrot (Amazona ochrocephala) green parrot from the coast (Aratinga finschi), king vulture or condor Central (Sarcoramphus potato), Wagner's bonneted bat. Among the reptiles are the yellow beard (Botrox atrox), tamagás (Botrox nasuta), Porthidium nasutum, boa (constrictor imperatur), Rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus), green turtle (Chelonia mydas), coffee caiman (Caiman Crocodylus fuscus), lizard ( Crocodylus acutus), coral snake, Acanthopleura granulata, brown basilisk. Other reptiles are the iguanas that blend with the varying shades of the forest; freshwater turtles and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and among the amphibians are abundant toads and frogs climbing varied species.

The coasts of Honduras, are drenched north and east by the Caribbean Sea and on the south by the Gulf of Fonseca in the coming turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea can be seen by diving the coral reef with its diversity of calcareous algae, seaweed red (Rhodophyta) as seagrass, among other aquatic plants that address a natural ecosystem.