Honduras

Honduras is a mountainous country with more than half its surface above six hundred metres, covered largely by pine and oak forest and, on the western summits, by cloud forests such as those of Celaque and Cusuco. To the northeast lies La Mosquitia, the largest area of tropical rainforest in Central America north of the Panama Canal, crossed by the Plátano river and virtually without roads. On the Caribbean coast, the Bay Islands sit on the Mesoamerican reef, with coral walls that drop to great depth very close to land. The wetlands of the Gulf of Fonseca, on the Pacific, and the coastal lagoons of the Caribbean complete the mosaic.