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| Honduras |
Mt.
Hood Community College
Instructor: shadia Duery
Subject:
Country Notebook
Student:
Raquel Granados
Cycle: 2012-2014
Country: Honduras
Source:
Maps of world. 2012. Political Map of Honduras. Available in internet[3-13-2014] from: http://www.mapsofworld.com/honduras/honduras-political-map.html
Source : CESO-SACO. 2007.Compartiendo las experiencias de la
vida.[Internet blog][3/32014]. Available from: http://www.cesohonduras.com/Pages/MapasdeHonduras.aspx
High Temperature
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MAR
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MAY
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JUN
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JUL
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F
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83
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82
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83
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86
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88
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86
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84
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83
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83
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84
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83
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81
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80
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Low Temperature
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F
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70
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68
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69
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70
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72
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72
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71
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71
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71
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69
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71
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69
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67
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Source: Weather base. Unknown. La Paz Honduras. [Internet][3-13-2014]
Available from: http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=81787&cityname=La-Paz--United-States-of-America
Source: World Weather Online .Unknown. La Paz
Monthly Climate Average, Honduras. [Internet] [3-13-2014] available from: http://www.worldweatheronline.com/La-Paz-weather-averages/La-Paz/HN.aspx
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| highest point: Cerro Las Minas 2,870 m |
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| Lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m
Source: About.com Geography .updated 2005.
Geography. [Internet] [3-13-2014] available
from: http://geography.about.com/library/cia/blchonduras.htm
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Latitude: 14 23N Longitude:
087 37W
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| La Paz is the state where my community is
Source: Weather base. Unknown. La Paz Honduras. [Internet][3-13-2014]
Available from: http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=81787&cityname=La-Paz--United-States-of-America
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| Mix Forest Ecosystem |
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| Conifer Ecosystem Ecosystem Description in my community "La Teja"
La Teja Honduras is a small community of about twenty houses,
it is located in the Southeast part of Honduras
in border with El Salvador.
There, the majority of people are farmers. There is a variety of little ecosystem such as
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Mountains Zones: where live , coyotes, rabbits,
deer, snakes , others.
Grassland : where live, cattle, horses , and
others.
Creeks: There live different species of fishes.
In general the
climate in La Teja is very hot in the dry season and warmer in the wet season.         
Source: B. Maldonado y C.
Alix. 1998. Manual de Dendrologia del Bosque Latífoliado. IV Edición.
• C. Nelson. 2000.
Nociones de Taxonomia Vegetal. Editorial Universitaria.
• Estudio de
Racionalización del SINAPH.2002. Volumen IV: Especies de Preocupación Especial.
• J R. McCraine y F.
Castañeda. 2007. Guía de Campo de los Anfibios de Honduras.
Three
popular articles about the ecosystem or environment in home country
CoralReefs in Honduras : this article talk about the Mesoamerican
Barrier Reef System (MBRS) in Honduras. When the hurricane Mitch was in 1998
this coral reef was so damage. It also say about the barrier reef of the bay
islands which are three island such as: Roatan, Guanaja and Utila. "These
islands support 131 hotels and resorts in an area of just over 100 square
miles (261 sq. km)." Charpenter 2008.It mentions the natural threats to
the reef and the current health of it as well.
 
source: Charpentier & Media 2008. Coral
Reefs in Honduras. [internet 3-17-2014]
Available from: http://traveltips.usatoday.com/coral-reefs-honduras-1112.html
The coast of Honduras,
Central America, represents the southern end of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef
System ". The Coast has beautiful reef formation,
wetlands, and mangroves. However it is become polluted by different
human aspects such, agricultural actions, Fishing and problem with sewage. Also
there occurs naturals disasters like hurricanes, etc . I'm interested in this
topic because the Caribbean Coast is the most famous touristic place in
Honduras by having one of the larger Coral Reef in the world and we as a
Honduran we have to protect them.
Marck Pollut Bull . 2001.Honduras Caribbean
Coast. NCBI. Available in internet from:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11827108
This article talk about the reforestation problem that
Honduras is facing specially in conservatives zones such as "La Biosfera
del Rio Platano" . This area has been deforested by indigenes people that
live there. They are cutting the forest and polluting the water.
Source: Danielle Morello June1997. Honduras and
Deforestation. Available in internet from: http://www1.american.edu/TED/honduras.htm
This article talk about the Caribbean
Coast where is it located, about different threats that the Coast is suffering,
and how these problem affect the economy of the Country . The Honduran
are using method to solve these problem such as working with national and
international NGO projects to protect the Caribbean Coast.
Daniel C. Afzal . 2001. Honduras Carebbean
Coast. Pergamon. Available in internet from: http://www.marinespatialecologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/harborneetal_2001.pdf
This article is about
the conservation of la Moskitia in Honduras, it say that La Moskitia has an
high value in terms of avian diversity in the country, in this article you will
find data that several scientific has done there.
Source: ORNITOLOGIA
NEOTROPICAL 15: 447–482, 2004. Avian Diversity in the Moskitia Region of Honduras. Available in internet from: http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w440035/Materials/AndersonONITNEO2004.pdf
This is about a observations that some fishermen and operators have see that rough-toothed dolphins are off
the coast in Utila Honduras. It talk about the study that they have been doing,
and what they are doing now in order to know more about the Dolphins behavior.
Source: Kuczaj II, S. A., & Yeater, D. B. "Observations of
Rough-Toothed Dolphins (Steno bredanensis) Off the Coast of Utila,
Honduras." Journal of the Marine
Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87.1 (2007): 141–148. also available
in internet from : http://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/psych_fac/36/
This is about the AIMS project that is funded by Global
Environmental Facility (GEF). This project is about how to protect the soil,
store carbon. They are in two countries in Central America; Costa Rica and
Nicaragua.
source: Markets for
Watershed Services -Country Profile 2006. Silvopastoral: Colombia,
Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Available in internet from: http://www.watershedmarkets.org/documents/Silvopastoril_Central_America.pdf
The objective of this project is to help the indigenous people in Central
America how to prevent environmental threatens, degradation of the land.
Source: INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT
BANK. INTEGRATED ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
This article shows data from Central America about all of disasters risk
that they have suffered during the last decades. It show information about
Hurricanes, storm flood and all kind of natural disaster, however it include a
litter bit about economy as well.
Source: The World Bank. Disaster Risk
Management in Central America. Available in internet from: http://www.gfdrr.org/sites/gfdrr.org/files/Honduras_DRM.pdf
Extra Points
Soils map in Honduras
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