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Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Cerro Las Minas, Swan Islands, Honduras and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Honduras and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Covering 5,250 square kilometers (2,030 mi²), mostly along the Río Plátano, a protected area on Honduras's Caribbean coast, in the Gracias a Dios department region.
Photo: Hjvannes at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Mountain in Honduras
Honduras's highest mountain, in Lempira Department, a rugged and fairly isolated area in the west of the country.
Photo: ETXEVERZ, Public domain
Island group of Honduras
A chain of three islands in the northwestern Caribbean, roughly 153 km (95 mi) northeast of Honduras's eastern coast, with 3.1 km² (1.2 sq mi) of land between them.
Photo: Donald E. Keith (Tarleton State University), CC BY-SA 3.0
Dam in Cortés, Honduras
Officially Central Hidroeléctrica Francisco Morazán, a hydroelectric plant in Western Honduras. Its dam holds back the Comayagua River, which gets its large flow from two big tributaries, the Sulaco and the Humuya.
Photo: Dwwhyd, Public domain
Largest of the Bay Islands, Honduras
A Caribbean island about 65 kilometres (40 mi) off Honduras's northern coast, the biggest of the country's Bay Islands, lying between Guanaja and Utila.
Photo: Westbrowncanada, CC BY-SA 3.0
Church in Comayagua, Honduras
Also called Comayagua Cathedral, a cathedral dedicated to the Virgin Mary on the Central Square of Comayagua, Honduras, and one of Central America's oldest. Built in stages from the 16th century, it was inaugurated on December 8, 1711, blessed in 1715, and has been altered many times since the 18th century.
Photo: Montebrujo1, CC BY-SA 4.0
Largest lake in Honduras
Honduras's biggest lake, covering 79 square kilometers with an average depth of 15 meters, lying 700 meters up in a depression formed by volcanoes.
Photo: Hjvannes, CC BY-SA 3.0
Smallest of Islas de la Bahía, Honduras
The smallest of the main Bay Islands of Honduras, after Guanaja and Roatán, in an area at the southern end of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the second-largest on Earth. History records it from Columbus' fourth voyage onward.
Photo: Rythie, CC BY 3.0
Church in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Properly the St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, a Catholic temple in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, known as the largest Catholic church of colonial times and one of the best-preserved historic buildings in the country.
Photo: feinteriano, CC BY-SA 3.0
Valley in Yoro Department, Honduras
The biggest alluvial valley in Honduras, in the northwest of the country, home to several of its most important cities: San Pedro Sula, Choloma, El Progreso, Villanueva, Puerto Cortés and Tela.
Photo: Anjelkaido, CC BY-SA 3.0
Officially the Republic of Honduras, a Central American country. Guatemala lies to its west, El Salvador to its southwest and Nicaragua to its southeast; to the south it reaches the Pacific at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north the Gulf of Honduras, a big inlet of the Caribbean. Tegucigalpa is its capital and biggest city.
Officially The Republic of Honduras.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Cerro Las Minas, Swan Islands, Honduras and El Cajón Dam (Honduras) and others. Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Honduras that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve. That is not the full count for Honduras, only the listed sites that made this guide.
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