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This ore comes from the Mochita mines in the mountains along the West side of Lake Yojda.

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These Honduran boys are standing on the beach in front of their thatched-roofed homes near Tela.

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In the warmer areas of the country the rural people live in houses thatched with palm leaves.

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The home of this rural family is covered with mahogany planks for shingles.

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This open air kitchen contains a stove built of clay placed upon a platform made of small logs.

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This young girl is patting out corn dough for tortillas which will be cooked by placing them on the metal top of the clay stove to bake.

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Many small villages in Honduras, hard to reach by land have airstrips and are easily reached by plane.

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Most of the main towns in Honduras can be reached by the gravel-surfaced roads in a great variety of homemade buses, such as this one.

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This is the inter-ocean highway, an all-weather road from Potrerillos across country to Jicaro Galan connecting with the Pan American.

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Between Potre Rillos and Lake Yotoa, the Rio Lindo flows near the inter-ocean highway and makes a series of small falls which are very beautiful.

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Lake Yoja, 25 miles long by 8 miles wide, is one of the most beautiful mountain lakes in all Central America.

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The ancient city of Copan near the Guatamalan border was a great cultural center of the Maya Indians.

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Comayagua was the first capital of Honduras.  Here stands a crumbling wall the remains of the once great Spanish Treasury of Honduras.

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A fine example in the village of Luquiqui of an early mission church built by friars who followed Cortes.

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The Church of the Virgin of Suyapa, located near Tegucigalpa, the capital.

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The city of Santa Barbara, famous for its Panama hats.

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San Pedro Sula, an important business and industrial city, second largest in Honduras and located in the North coast sugar and banana lowlands.

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Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.

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El Picacho at the top of El Picacho is located at the beautiful park of the United Nations.

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At the summit of another hill, Tuana, Laines stands the monument to peace built to remind Hondurans of the great necessity of living in peace.