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La Mosquitia (Honduras)
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Cape_Camar%C3%B3n/Ru8V4pcJ">Cape Camarón</a></li> <li> Honduras portal</li> <li><a href="/facts/Juan_Pablo_Suazo_Euceda/el4XJ0Ef">Juan Pablo Suazo Euceda</a>, author of two novels set in La Mosquitia</li> <li><a href="/facts/Miskito_people/KKIxUPjA">Miskito</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Mosquito_Coast/bqrkUTcm">Mosquito Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Mosquito_County/y28dw5kY">Mosquito County</a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/The_Mosquito_Coast_(film)/AgCoLVgk">The Mosquito Coast</a></i> (1986 film)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Millington, T. (1997). ""No Tech" Technical diving: The lobster divers of La Mosquitia". Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. 27 (3). Archived from the original on July 5, 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-06. <a href="https://archive.today/20130705003254/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6079" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20130705003254/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6079</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Herlihy, P. 2001, Indigenous and Ladino peoples of the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras. In:Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive. Ed. S.C. Stonich. Greenwood Press: Westport, CT. Pp. 101-120. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Herlihy, P. 2001, Indigenous and Ladino peoples of the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras. In:Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive. Ed. S.C. Stonich. Greenwood Press: Westport, CT. Pp. 101-120. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>UNESCO (2016). "Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve". Retrieved 2016-12-30. <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/196" target="_blank">https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/196</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Millington, T. (1997). ""No Tech" Technical diving: The lobster divers of La Mosquitia". Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. 27 (3). Archived from the original on July 5, 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-06. <a href="https://archive.today/20130705003254/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6079" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20130705003254/http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6079</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Philip Sherwell (16 Nov 2013). "Welcome to Honduras, the most dangerous country on the planet". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on November 18, 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013. The drugs are overwhelmingly smuggled through La Mosquitia, a sparsely-populated, lawless and near-impenetrable rainforest along the Nicaraguan border and Caribbean coast. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131118004552/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/honduras/10454018/Welcome-to-Honduras-the-most-dangerous-country-on-the-planet.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20131118004552/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/honduras/10454018/Welcome-to-Honduras-the-most-dangerous-country-on-the-planet.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>McSweeney, K. and z. Pearson. 2013.Prying Native People from Native Lands: Narco Business in Honduras. NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS VOL. 46, NO. 4. <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Yakam-Simen, F.; Nezry, E.; Ewing, J. (1 Dec 1998). "A legendary lost city found in the Honduran tropical forest using ERS-2 and JERS-1 SAR imagery". IEEE 1999 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. IGARSS'99 (Cat. No.99CH36293). Vol. 5. pp. 2578–2580. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.1999.771582. ISBN 0-7803-5207-6. S2CID 17274679. <a href="0-7803-5207-6" target="_blank">0-7803-5207-6</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Douglas Preston (2 Mar 2015). "Lost City Discovered in the Honduran Rain Forest". National Geographic. Archived from the original on March 3, 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2015. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150303051331/http://news-beta.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150302-honduras-lost-city-monkey-god-maya-ancient-archaeology/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20150303051331/http://news-beta.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150302-honduras-lost-city-monkey-god-maya-ancient-archaeology/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>