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Show COLOGY OF HONDURAS 'TOPOGRAPHY, LIFE ZONES:t AND CLIMATE r'1phy The Honduras- in name "'wavelike" and is thought mountai"ns which cover this as impress ion and down into by east-west order in somewhat Spanish is trending continually going mountain Honduras (Schuchert, 1935). great Plain of valley Comayagua, wide and extends in is a the most s which a is forty north and biological barrier, tmportance in sea to the mou nt.a I'nous-> t rue tu reI miles long, to south direction. to more sys-t'emsc"a-ve sy s t enr This research the distribution of 's--"a--'or fifteen mles to From this the Gulf of Honduras the Pacific sea. five , "bcts'i;ns Honduras. Dep r e s s Lorr;': and plain he the .Ocean (Redfield,.192D. a depression I, but is'ii'tle northeTn-aryd'K this to depreSSions collectively cQnstitute valley reaching from its there though exception the west, in Valley southward These three whole The Humuya Valley extends northward Goascaran country t·s'" t'rav'e-r'sed the separated by deep ar e (Bengston, 1926)-. transverse reinforces- mount afrr-paas es- canyon-like valleys and intricate tributary been incised " The sierra- region is char-ac t.e r fzed+by country of Central America. short mountain _'ranges- tha t a as . .... cordilleras may be disce'T'Iled' southern system of higher and Hondur-as over up third of ranges, in valleys'"cmd' intricately dissected highlands, the very into which Traveling The northern valleys. translat-eq'-'as" literally the wavelike refer to to the country. one be may i needed in great may serve order aquatic insects. transverse to as a determine |
