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This is a list of islands of Honduras. There are at least 99
This is a list of islands of Honduras. There are at least 99 island
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
s in 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 Oce ...
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Islands
The following islands are part of Honduras: *Caribbean
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islands (all part of Islas de la Bahía
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Department)
**Bobel Cay Bobel Cay is an island in Honduras, located around 500km off the east coast of the South American continent.
Location
Bobel Cay is of the most southerly islands under Honduras’ jurisdiction, and the cay is located close to the border of Nicaragu ...
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**Cayos Cochinos
The Cayos Cochinos or Cochinos Cays consist of two small islands (''Cayo Menor'' and ''Cayo Grande'') and 13 smaller coral cays situated northeast of La Ceiba on the northern shores of Honduras. Although geographically separate, they belong to t ...
(Islas de la Bahía),
***Cayo Cochino Grande (Mayor),
***Cayo Cochino Menor,
***Cayo Culebra,
***Cayo Gallo
***Cayo Timon
***Cayo Zacate
***Cayo Arena,
***Cayo Bolanos
***Cayo Paloma (nature preserve), Google maps
***Cayo Borrego
***Cayo Balfate
***Cayo Largo Arriba
***Cayo Redondo,
***Cayo Chachahaute 2
***Cayo Chachahaute,
**Islas de la Bahía,
***Guanaja
Guanaja is one of the Bay Islands of Honduras and is in the Caribbean. It is about off the north coast of Honduras, and from the island of Roatan. One of the cays off Guanaja, also called Guanaja or Bonacca or Low Cay (or just simply, The Ca ...
(Islas de la Bahía),
***Roatán
Roatán () is an island in the Caribbean, about off the northern coast of Honduras. It is located between the islands of Utila and Guanaja, and is the largest of the Bay Islands of Honduras. The island was formerly known in English as Ruatan ...
(Islas de la Bahía) (Isla Roatan),
**** Barbareta (Islas de la Bahía Department),
***Utila
Utila ''(Isla de Utila)'' is the smallest of Honduras' major Bay Islands, after Roatán and Guanaja, in a region that marks the south end of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the second-largest in the world.
The eastern end of the island i ...
(Islas de la Bahía),
**Savanna Cay,
**Cayo Sur
Cayo Sur (meaning South Cay) is a small uninhabited island less than two hectares in size located in the Caribbean sea. The surrounding area has an abundance of fish and oil.
Dispute and resolution
The island had been disputed by Honduras and N ...
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** Swan Islands
***Isla Grande,
***Little Swan Island (Isla Pequeña),
**Cayo Gorda
Cayo Gorda is a cay that is 66 nautical miles off the east coast of Honduras in the Caribbean Sea. It has an approximate area of 0.007 square kilometres and in 2005 was inhabited by 11 people.Charney, Jonathan I. ''et al.'' (1993). ''International ...
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** Isla Zacate Grande,
*Pacific
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islands (part of Valle department
Valle is one of the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided.
The departmental capital is Nacaome. The department faces the Gulf of Fonseca and contains mangrove swamps; inland, it is very hot and dry.
The department covers a total surface ...
)
** Isla del Tigre,
**Isla Conejo
Conejo Island, in Spanish Isla Conejo, meaning "rabbit island", is a Honduran Island alongside many other islands in the region. El Salvador has disputed the Honduran island located in the Gulf of Fonseca.
History
In 1992, the International Court ...
(disputed island, El Salvador),
See also
*List of Caribbean islands
Almost all of the Caribbean islands are in the Caribbean Sea, with only a few in inland lakes. The largest island is Cuba. Other sizable islands include Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago. Some of the smaller islands are ref ...
*List of islands
This is a list of the lists of islands in the world grouped by country, by continent, by body of water
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References
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An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
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 Oce ...