Roatán, the Glossary
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71 relations: Afro-Hondurans, Arawak, Bay Islands Department, British Army, British Isles, Buccaneer, Cardwell Reforms, Caribbean, Caribbean Sea, Cayman Islands, Cayos Cochinos, Charter city (economic development), Chʼortiʼ people, Christopher Columbus, Comayagua International Airport, Commonwealth Caribbean, Coral island, Coral reef, Coxen Hole, Deforestation, Departments of Honduras, Edward Low, Expatriate, Filibuster (military), Garifuna, Golosón International Airport, Gooch's American Regiment, Great Barrier Reef, Guanaja, Honduras, Hurricane Mitch, José Santos Guardiola, Bay Islands, Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport, Kalinago, La Ceiba, Lenca, List of busiest cruise ports by passengers, Mangrove forest, Maroons, Maya peoples, Measles, Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, Mestizo, Miskito people, Municipalities of Honduras, Pech people, Philip Ashton, Politics of Honduras, Port, Próspera, ... Expand index (21 more) »
- Bay Islands Department
- Caribbean islands of Honduras
- Cruise seaports
- Municipalities of the Bay Islands Department
Afro-Hondurans
Afro-Hondurans or Black Hondurans are Hondurans of Sub-Saharan African descent.
Arawak
The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean.
Bay Islands Department
The Bay Islands (Islas de la Bahía) is a group of islands off the coast of Honduras.
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.
British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.
Buccaneer
Buccaneers were a kind of privateer or free sailors particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Cardwell Reforms
The Cardwell Reforms were a series of reforms of the British Army undertaken by Secretary of State for War Edward Cardwell between 1868 and 1874 with the support of Liberal prime minister William Ewart Gladstone.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population.
Cayos Cochinos
The Cayos Cochinos or Cochinos Cays consist of two small islands (Cayo Menor and Cayo Grande) and 13 smaller coral cays situated northeast of La Ceiba on the northern shores of Honduras. Roatán and Cayos Cochinos are bay Islands Department and Caribbean islands of Honduras.
Charter city (economic development)
A charter city is a type of city in which a guarantor from a developed country would create a city within a developing host country.
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Chʼortiʼ people
The Chʼortiʼ people (alternatively, Chʼortiʼ Maya or Chorti) are one of the Indigenous Maya peoples, who primarily reside in communities and towns of southeastern Guatemala, northwestern Honduras, and northern El Salvador.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Comayagua International Airport
Comayagua International Airport (IATA: XPL, ICAO: MHPR), also known as Palmerola International Airport, is an international airport located 6 km (4 mi) south of the centre of Comayagua, Honduras.
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Commonwealth Caribbean
The Commonwealth Caribbean is the region of the Caribbean with English-speaking countries and territories, which once constituted the Caribbean portion of the British Empire and are now part of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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Coral island
A coral island is a type of island formed from coral detritus and associated organic material.
Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.
Coxen Hole
Coxen Hole is the largest city on the island of Roatán, and the capital of the Bay Islands department of Honduras, with a population of 5,070 as of census 2001. Roatán and Coxen Hole are bay Islands Department.
Deforestation
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.
Departments of Honduras
Honduras is divided into 18 departments (Spanish: departamentos).
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Edward Low
Edward "Ned" Low (also spelled Lowe or Loe; 16901724) was a notorious pirate of English origin during the latter days of the Golden Age of Piracy, in the early 18th century.
Expatriate
An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their country of citizenship.
Filibuster (military)
A filibuster (from the Spanish filibustero), also known as a freebooter, is someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to foster or support a political revolution or secession.
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Garifuna
The Garifuna people (or; pl. Garínagu in Garifuna) are a people of mixed free African and Amerindian ancestry that originated in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and speak Garifuna, an Arawakan language, and Vincentian Creole. Roatán and Garifuna are bay Islands Department.
Golosón International Airport
Golosón International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Golosón) is an airport located on the western side of the city of La Ceiba, in the Atlántida Department on the north coast of Honduras.
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Gooch's American Regiment
Gooch's American Regiment was a British Army regiment raised in the Thirteen Colonies in 1739 for service during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
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Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.
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Guanaja
Guanaja is one of the Bay Islands of Honduras and is in the Caribbean. Roatán and Guanaja are bay Islands Department, Caribbean islands of Honduras and municipalities of the Bay Islands Department.
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America.
Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch was the second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.
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José Santos Guardiola, Bay Islands
José Santos Guardiola is a municipality in the Bay Islands Department of Honduras. Roatán and José Santos Guardiola, Bay Islands are municipalities of the Bay Islands Department.
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Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport
Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Juan Manuel Gálvez) is an international airport located on the island of Roatán, in the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of Honduras.
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Kalinago
The Kalinago, formerly known as Island Caribs or simply Caribs, are an Indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
La Ceiba
La Ceiba is a municipality, the capital of the Honduran department of Atlántida and a port city on the northern coast of Honduras in Central America.
Lenca
The Lenca, also known as Lepa Wiran, meaning “Jaguar People” or “People of The Jaguar” are an Indigenous people from present day southwest Honduras and eastern El Salvador in Central America.
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List of busiest cruise ports by passengers
This is a list of busiest cruise ports by passengers. Roatán and list of busiest cruise ports by passengers are cruise seaports.
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Mangrove forest
Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones.
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Maroons
Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements.
Maya peoples
The Maya are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.
Measles
Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable infectious disease caused by measles virus.
Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System (MBRS), also popularly known as the Great Mayan Reef or Great Maya Reef, is a marine region that stretches over along the coasts of four countries – Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras – from Isla Contoy at the northern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula south to Belize, Guatemala and the Bay Islands of Honduras.
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Mestizo
Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.
Miskito people
The Miskitos are a native people in Central America.
Municipalities of Honduras
Honduras is administratively divided into 18 departments, which are subdivided into 298 municipalities (municipios).
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Pech people
The Pech people, previously known as the Paya, are an indigenous ethnic group in north-eastern Honduras.
Philip Ashton
Philip Ashton (17021746) was a castaway on then-uninhabited Roatán island in the Gulf of Honduras for 16 months in 1723/1724.
Politics of Honduras
Politics of Honduras takes place in a framework of a multi-party system presidential representative democratic republic.
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Port
A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.
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Próspera
Próspera is a private city and special economic zone on the island of Roatán in the Central American state of Honduras. Roatán and Próspera are bay Islands Department.
Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport
Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Ramón Villeda Morales), also known as La Mesa International Airport, is located southeast of the city of San Pedro Sula, in the Cortés Department of Honduras.
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Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences
Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences (RIMS) is a scientific research center located in Roatán, department of Islas de la Bahía, in the Republic of Honduras.
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Roatán Marine Park
The Roatán Marine Park (RMP), based in Roatán, Honduras, is a grass roots, community-based, non-profit organization, non governmental organisation (NGO) established in January 2005 by a group of dive operators and local businesses that were concerned about the alarming rate of reef degradation in the Sandy Bay-West End Marine Reserve (SBWEMR).
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Royal Berkshire Regiment
The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1959.
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Saint Vincent (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.
Second Carib War
The Second Carib War (1795–1797) took place on the island of Saint Vincent between 1795 and 1797.
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Slavery Abolition Act 1833
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which provided for the gradual abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire.
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Smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.
Special economic zone
A special economic zone (SEZ) is an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country.
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Taíno
The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities.
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Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa—formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District (Tegucigalpa, Municipio del Distrito Central or Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.), and colloquially referred to as Tegus or Teguz—is the capital and largest city of Honduras along with its sister city, Comayagüela.
Tolupan
The Tolupan or Jicaque people are an Indigenous ethnic group of Honduras, primarily inhabiting the northwest coast of Honduras Encyclopædia Britannica. (retrieved 2 Dec 2011) and the community in central Honduras.
Toncontín International Airport
Toncontín Airport formerly Toncontín International Airport, also known as Teniente Coronel Hernán Acosta Mejía Airport is a civil and military airport located from the centre of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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Trujillo, Honduras
Trujillo is a city, with a population of 22,750 (2023 calculation), and a municipality on the northern Caribbean coast of the Honduran department of Colón, of which the city is the capital.
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Utila
Utila (Isla de Utila) is the smallest of Honduras' major Bay Islands, after Roatán and Guanaja, in a region that marks the south end of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the second-largest in the world. Roatán and Utila are bay Islands Department, Caribbean islands of Honduras and municipalities of the Bay Islands Department.
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War of the Austrian Succession
The War of the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
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Waste treatment
Waste treatment refers to the activities required to ensure that waste has the least practicable impact on the environment.
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White Latin Americans
White Latin Americans or European Latin Americans (sometimes Euro-Latinos) are Latin Americans of European descent.
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William Walker (filibuster)
William Walker (May 8, 1824September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist, and mercenary.
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The 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1743.
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See also
Bay Islands Department
- Bay Islands Department
- Bay Islands English
- Cayos Cochinos
- Coxen Hole
- Garifuna
- Guanaja
- Guanaja Airport
- Misteriosa Bank
- Próspera
- Roatán
- Rosalind Bank
- Rosario Bank
- Thunder Knoll
- Utila
Caribbean islands of Honduras
- Bobel Cay
- Cayman Ridge
- Cayo Gorda
- Cayos Cochinos
- Guanaja
- Misteriosa Bank
- Roatán
- Rosalind Bank
- Rosario Bank
- Thunder Knoll
- Utila
Cruise seaports
- Grand Cayman
- Grand Turk Island
- Havensight, U.S. Virgin Islands
- List of busiest cruise ports by passengers
- Nassau, Bahamas
- Philipsburg, Sint Maarten
- Port Canaveral
- Port Everglades
- Port of Bridgetown
- Port of Galveston
- Port of Shanghai
- Port of Southampton
- PortMiami
- Roatán
- Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
- San Miguel de Cozumel
- Vizhinjam International Seaport Thiruvananthapuram
Municipalities of the Bay Islands Department
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roatán
Also known as Isla Roatan, Mahogany Bay, Port of Roatan, Rattan (island), Roatan Island, Roatan,Bay Islands, Honduras, Roatán, Honduras, Ruatan.
, Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport, Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences, Roatán Marine Park, Royal Berkshire Regiment, Saint Vincent (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Scuba diving, Second Carib War, Slavery Abolition Act 1833, Smallpox, Special economic zone, Taíno, Tegucigalpa, Tolupan, Toncontín International Airport, Trujillo, Honduras, Utila, War of the Austrian Succession, Waste treatment, White Latin Americans, William Walker (filibuster), 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot.