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Copán Ruinas Airport
Copán Ruinas Airport is a newly completed airport serving the town of Copán Ruinas in Honduras. The runway is approximately east of the town. The airport was opened in 2015, and is expected to provide easier tourist access to the Mayan ruins at Copán. A second construction phase is planned that will allow aircraft with up to 100 passengers to land. There are low hills in all quadrants. The Puerto Barrios VOR-DME (Ident: IOS) is located north-northeast of the airport. See also * * *Transport in Honduras *List of airports in Honduras This is a list of airports in Honduras, sorted by location. Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras ( es, República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British ... References External links FallingRain - Copán RuinasOpenStreetMap - Copán RuinasOurAirports - Copán Ruinas* Airports in Honduras {{Honduras-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copán Ruinas
Copán Ruinas is a municipality in the Honduran department of Copán. The town, located close to the Guatemalan border, is a major gateway for tourists traveling to the Pre-Columbian ruins of Copán. The Copán ruins house a UN World Heritage site and are renowned for the hieroglyphic staircase, stellae, and museum. Project Honduras Every year in December, the town hosts the Conference on Honduras put on by Project Honduras. The conference is an opportunity for individuals and grassroots organizations to discuss ways to improve the quality of life in Honduras through addressing the social and economic needs of the country, primarily in the areas of education, healthcare, and community building. The theme of the Conference on Honduras on 18–20 October 2012 will be "Understanding the Security Situation in Honduras". Education The town has many small language schools that offer classes for travelers. Transport The town is linked to the Honduran-Guatemalan border, approx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea. Its capital and largest city is Tegucigalpa. Honduras was home to several important Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya, before the Spanish Colonization in the sixteenth century. The Spanish introduced Catholicism and the now predominant Spanish language, along with numerous customs that have blended with the indigenous culture. Honduras became independent in 1821 and has since been a republic, although it has consistently endured much social strife and political instability, and remains one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. In 1960, the northern part of what was the Mosquito Coast was transferred from Nicara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Civilization
The Maya civilization () of the Mesoamerican people is known by its ancient temples and glyphs. Its Maya script is the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas. It is also noted for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system. The Maya civilization developed in the Maya Region, an area that today comprises southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. It includes the northern lowlands of the Yucatán Peninsula and the highlands of the Sierra Madre, the Mexican state of Chiapas, southern Guatemala, El Salvador, and the southern lowlands of the Pacific littoral plain. Today, their descendants, known collectively as the Maya, number well over 6 million individuals, speak more than twenty-eight surviving Mayan languages, and reside in nearly the same area as their ancestors. The Archaic period, before 2000 BC, saw the first developments in agricul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copán
Copán is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in the Copán Department of western Honduras, not far from the border with Guatemala. This ancient Maya city mirrors the beauty of the physical landscape in which it flourished—a fertile, well-watered mountain valley in western Honduras at an elevation of 600 meters (1,970 feet) above mean sea level. It was the capital city of a major Classic period kingdom from the 5th to 9th centuries AD. The city was in the extreme southeast of the Mesoamerican cultural region, on the frontier with the Isthmo-Colombian cultural region, and was almost surrounded by non-Maya peoples.. Copán was occupied for more than two thousand years, from the Early Preclassic period to the Postclassic. The city developed a distinctive sculptural style within the tradition of the lowland Maya, perhaps to emphasize the Maya ethnicity of the city's rulers. The city has a historical record that spans the greater part of the Classic period and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VOR-DME
In radio navigation, a VOR/DME is a radio beacon that combines a VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) with a distance-measuring equipment (DME). The VOR allows the receiver to measure its bearing to or from the beacon, while the DME provides the slant distance between the receiver and the station. Together, the two measurements allow the receiver to compute a position fix. The VOR system was first introduced in the 1930s, but didn't enter significant commercial use until the early 1950s. It became much more practical with the introduction of low-cost Solid state (electronics), solid state receivers in the 1960s. DME was a modification of World War II-era navigation systems like Gee-H, and began development in 1946. Like VOR, it only became practical with the introduction of solid state receivers during the 1960s. During the mid-1960s, ICAO began the process of introducing a standardized radio navigation system for medium-area coverage on the order of a few hundred kilometres. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transport In Honduras
Transport in Honduras refers to transport in Honduras, a country in Central America. Railways ; Total: * Narrow gauge railway, Narrow gauge: * gauge: * gauge Railway links with adjacent countries North to south: * Transport in El Salvador, El Salvador — none * Transport in Guatemala, Guatemala — none in use — break-of-gauge / (?* Transport in Nicaragua, Nicaragua — none Highways ; Totals * Paved: * Unpaved: (2012 est.) Double carriageway highways are slowly being developed in the main population areas in Honduras, however they are not traffic-selective and accept any kind of traffic, thus slowing the speed along them. The current ones are: * San Pedro Sula - Puerto Cortés. Length: * San Pedro Sula - El Progreso. Length: * San Pedro Sula - Villanueva. Length: * Tegucigalpa ring-road. Length: * Tegucigalpa - Támara. Length: Waterways navigable by small craft, mainly along the Northern coast. Ports and harbors Atlantic Ocean * Puerto Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Airports In Honduras
This is a list of airports in Honduras, sorted by location. Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras ( es, República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea. Its area is just over with an estimated population of almost 8 million inhabitants. The nation is currently divided into 18 departments ''(departamentos)''. The capital city of Honduras is Tegucigalpa. __TOC__ Airports Names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled passenger service on commercial airlines. The following airports have unverified coordinates: See also * Aerolíneas Sosa * Transportation in Honduras * List of airports by ICAO code: M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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