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HONDURAS

CARIBBEAN-CENTRAL AMERICA PROFILE 2018

Ministry of Finance Ministry of Public Security • The only port in Latin America to qualify
Avenida Cervantes, Barrio El Jazmín Casemate, Picacho for both U.S. government port security
Centro Histórico Tegucigalpa, MDC, Honduras initiatives, the Container Security Initiative
Tegucigalpa, Honduras Tel: (504) 222-5547 (CSI) and its Mega ports Initiative.
Tel: (504) 2222-8449 Fax: (504) 2237-9070 • With 24-hour service, modern roll-on and
E-mail: despacho@sefin.gob.hn Ministry of Works and Social Security roll-off and containerized facilities.
Ministry of Foreign Relations Col. Puerta El Sol, Edif. Olimpo a la par que • With sophisticated container-handling
Avenida Juan Ramón Molina, 1st Street SETCO Intersecciones Blvd. Villa Olimpica y equipment ensuring efficiency and
7th Avenue Old Central Bank Building La Hacienda, competitive shipping costs to the U.S.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras Tegucigalpa, Honduras • With shorter screening times and procedures.
Tel: (504) 2236-0200 Tel: (504) 2232-3456
Fax: (504) 2235-3455
Ministry of Health E-mail: info@trabajo.gob.hn For Pacific access, the port of San Lorenzo
Barrio El Centro, Cervantes Avenue offers a 28-foot channel depth, 974 feet of dock
El Telegráfo Street EDUCATION space and three warehouses.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras In Honduras primary education lasts for six AIR
Tel: :(504) 2238-3917 years, is free and compulsory. Secondary
education covers five years divided into a Airports: The country’s major airports are
Ministry of Human Rights, Justice, ciclo común / lower cycle or a ciclo común Tegucigalpa’s Toncontin International, San
Governance and Decentralization pre-vocational and an upper cycle of two years Pedro Sula’s Ramon Villeda Morales, La
Res. La Hacienda, La Estancia Street called ciclo diversificado. In the upper cycle, Ceiba’s El Goloson, and Roatan’s Juan Manuel
Block A-Lot 8 Building Z and M pupils may specialize in literary or scientific Galvez.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras streams. On completion, they sit for the
Tel: (504) 2232-7800 Bachillerato. Technical secondary education at TELECOMMUNICATION
upper cycle level lasts for three years. There is Honduras has a reliable international direct-
Ministry of Infrastructure and Public also a distance education system. dial land-line, cellular and satellite telephone
Services service, Internet services, broad-band and high-
Barrio La Bolsa, Comayagüela MDC Higher education is provided by public and speed wireless communication. International
Tegucigalpa, Honduras private universities and specialized institutes and telecommunications operators include
Tel: (504) 2225-4689 schools. The Universidad Nacional Autónoma AT&T, Sprint and MCI. There are fiber optic
de Honduras is responsible for higher education connections to underwater cables Maya 1,
Ministry of Natural Resources and through the Claustro Pleno, the Consejo de
Environment Educación Superior, the Consejo Técnico and Arcos 1 and Emergia 1.
100 mts al sur de Estadio Naciona the Dirección de Educación Superior. There is a CONTACTS
P.O. Box 4710, national school of forestry, a national school of Cámara de Comercio é Industria de Cortés
Tegucigalpa, Honduras 1389 agriculture and a school of music. There are 50 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Cortés
Tel: (504) 2232-9200 campuses and more than 728 bilingual schools 10 Calle 17 Ave.
E-mail: sdespacho@serna.gob.hn (Spanish-English, Spanish - French). Circunvalación S.O., Colonia Trejo,
Ministry of Public Works, Transport and San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Housing INFRASTRUCTURE Tel: (504) 553-0761
Bulevar San Juan Bosco TRANSPORTATION Fax: (504) 553-3777
LAND
Edificio El Sol, Railroads: 988 km. (613.6 mi.) operating in the E-mail: ccic@simon.intertel.hn
Tegucigalpa, Honduras 237 north coast region. Rail travel is very limited, Cámara de Comercio é Industria de
Tel: (504) 2239-5269 but does exist on the North Coast. Visitors can Tegucigalpa
Fax: (504) 2239-5277 arrange special tours out of San Pedro Sula on Chamber of Commerce and Industry of
Ministry of Tourism the Banana Train, and out of La Ceiba on the Tegucigalpa
Colonia San Carlos Tourist Train. Bulevar Centroamérica,
Edificio Europa 5to. Piso, Highways: The road network comprises 13,686 Apdo, 3444, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Tel: (504) 232-8110
km of primary, secondary and municipal roads,
Tegucigalpa, Honduras of which only 20.8 percent are paved. Fax: (504) 232-0159
Tel: (504) 2222-2124 E-mail: camara@ccit.hn
Fax: (504) 2222-2124 SEA
E-mail: tourisminfo@iht.hn Sea Ports: The National Port Authority operates IN THE U.S.
Ministry of Planning and External four ports on the Caribbean coast (Puerto Cortes, Embassy of Honduras
3007 Tilden St, N.W. POD 4M,
Cooperation Tela, La Ceiba and Puerto Castilla) and one on Washington D.C. 20008
Government Civic Center, Tegucigalpa MDC, the Pacific (San Lorenzo). Tel. (202) 966-7702
Honduras Puerto Cortés, on the northern coast, handles Fax: (202) 966-9751
Tel: (504) 2223-7000 more than one half of the country’s exports. It E-mail: tourism@hondurasemb.org
Fax: (504) 2239-5277 is the only deep water port in Central America,
Email: correo@setco.gob.hn and one of the regions largest and best equipped:

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