Debt - external:
$5.587 billion (2006 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$557.8 million (1999)
Currency (code):
lempira (HNL)
Currency code:
HNL
Exchange rates:
lempiras per US dollar - 18.9278 (2006), 18.92 (2005), 18.206
(2004), 17.345 (2003), 16.433 (2002)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Honduras
Telephones - main lines in use:
494,400 (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.282 million (2005)
Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate system
domestic: NA
international: country code - 504; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave
System