A Central American country bordered by Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
From Spanish Honduras, meaning 'depths,' named by Columbus in 1502 for the deep waters off the Caribbean coast. The name reflects the navigational challenges early explorers faced.
Honduras was named for its treacherous deep coastal waters, but ironically, the country is actually quite mountainous inland - a geographic irony that reflects how European explorers often named places based on their first, limited coastal encounters.
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