Honduras - Coat of Arms

Last modified: 2001-11-09 by dov gutterman
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by Zeljko Heimer, 5 November 2001

• Coat of Arms

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• Honduras CoA (in Spanish)

Coat of Arms

Here and here there are two more versions of the CoA.
Fred Drews, 21 November 1999

Honduras also has 15 SEPTIEMBRE  - 1821 - as El Salvador does, but in the same ovoidal scroll as its extended name 'REPCA [ca in smaller underlined letters] DE HONDURAS LIBRE SOBERANA INDEPENDIENTE' (free, sovereign and independent).
Ivan Sache, 11 September 1999

Here is translation of the information that is in:http://www.intertel.hn:

National Coat-of-Arms of Honduras
The National Congress decrees:
Article 1 - The National Coat-of-Arms that shall be used is a equilateral triangle. On its base a volcano between two castles, over them is the rainbow and below it [and] behind the volcano a sun rises spreading light. The triangle [is] placed over land which appears to be bathed by both seas [Atlantic and Pacific]. Around it an oval containing in gold lettering: "REPUBLICA DE HONDURAS, LIBRE, SOBERANA E INDEPENDIENTE. 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1821" [Republic of Honduras, Free, Sovereign and Independent. 15th September 1821] On the to