For thousands of years, indigenous peoples lived in Honduras. The greatest of them were the Mayans. However, the first European to reach Honduras was Christopher Columbus on 30 July 1502. Columbus later sailed as far south as Panama. The area became known as Honduras from the Spanish word for depths. The Spanish conquest of Honduras began in 1523. The native people resisted bitterly but by 1539 the Spanish were in control.
Central America's earliest occupants almost certainly were Paleo-Indians from the north, but linguistic and other evidence suggests that many indigenous people present in Honduras today (Pech, Tawahka and probably Lenca) are descended from later migrations of people from rainforest regions of South America, especially present-day Colombia.
Having been the site of such a historic landing, the Honduran Caribbean coast was all but ignored by explorers for the next twenty years, who focused instead on Mexico, Panama and the Caribbean islands. Hernán Cortés' expedition into the Aztec heartland, however, revived interest in Central America. On September 15, 1821, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua declared independence from Spain, and shortly thereafter joined the newly formed Mexican Empire.
The banner of Honduras was embraced on February 16, 1866. The blue and white and the five stars speak of the United Provinces of Central America after they picked up their independence from Spain.
The banner of Honduras was made upon the banner of the Federal Republic of Central America, which uses a pale shade of blue for the external groups, and the organization's seal in the middle. After the league disintegrated around 1838, Honduras kept the union's banner, embracing it as its own, including the five stars in trusts the countries could be united once more, and mirroring their mutual history.
The flag of Honduras is comprised of three equal-sized horizontal bands, with blue on the top and bottom and white in between. On the middle band are five stars, forming an H in the center, two stacked together on the right and left, and one in the very center. The blue stripes symbolize the waters bordering Honduras: the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The white symbolizes peace and prosperity while the five stars represent the nations of the former Federal Republic of Central America, which included El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala.
Central America's earliest occupants almost certainly were Paleo-Indians from the north, but linguistic and other evidence suggests that many indigenous people present in Honduras today (Pech, Tawahka and probably Lenca) are descended from later migrations of people from rainforest regions of South America, especially present-day Colombia.
Having been the site of such a historic landing, the Honduran Caribbean coast was all but ignored by explorers for the next twenty years, who focused instead on Mexico, Panama and the Caribbean islands. Hernán Cortés' expedition into the Aztec heartland, however, revived interest in Central America. On September 15, 1821, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua declared independence from Spain, and shortly thereafter joined the newly formed Mexican Empire.
The banner of Honduras was embraced on February 16, 1866. The blue and white and the five stars speak of the United Provinces of Central America after they picked up their independence from Spain.
The banner of Honduras was made upon the banner of the Federal Republic of Central America, which uses a pale shade of blue for the external groups, and the organization's seal in the middle. After the league disintegrated around 1838, Honduras kept the union's banner, embracing it as its own, including the five stars in trusts the countries could be united once more, and mirroring their mutual history.
The flag of Honduras is comprised of three equal-sized horizontal bands, with blue on the top and bottom and white in between. On the middle band are five stars, forming an H in the center, two stacked together on the right and left, and one in the very center. The blue stripes symbolize the waters bordering Honduras: the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The white symbolizes peace and prosperity while the five stars represent the nations of the former Federal Republic of Central America, which included El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala.
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