Copan Ruins in Honduras Central America

El Camino a la Superacion is an indigenous Mayan artisan cooperative in Copan Ruinas. Started by Deborah Matherne, a Louisana-native, as a way to help the local community pool its resources and succeed together, it has now taken a firm step into the future. Many of the member communities are not connected to the electricity [...]

Rodger Harrison has that look about him: you can see it in his eyes when he talks about his organization, founded 14 years ago in the historic village of Copán Ruinas, Honduras. Paramedics For Children (PFC) includes a medical clinic, ambulance services, and mountain village school supply programs. When asked why he started PFC, Mr. [...]

Experts from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the University of Arizona (UA) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) found the 6-step staircase which reveals El Palmar had contacts with Calakmul, in Campeche, and Copan, Honduras, almost 1300 years ago. Project leaders announced that the stairway conserves 90 blocks with more [...]

With a new stable government and tourism on the rebound, hotel development in the Central American country of Honduras is picking up where it left off in 2008. Before the economic downturn, it seemed Honduras was on its way to becoming the next Costa Rica, with major hotel projects developing across multiple regions. That changed [...]

Things haven’t changed much in Copan Ruinas. Old men play checkers in the plaza and barefoot kids kick soccer balls in the dusty square. But the village, now the gateway to the restored Mayan city of Copan, thrives on its ancient neighbor, the National Monument whose massive pyramids and plazas rank among Central Americas preeminent [...]