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The National anthem of Honduras is “Himno Nacional de Honduras” which means in English “National Anthem of Honduras”.

Honduras’s anthem lyrics were written by Augusto Constancio COELLO and the music was written by Carlos HARTLING.

Adopted 1915; The Anthem’s Seven Verses Chronicle Honduran History; On Official Occasions, Only The Chorus And Last Verse Are Sung.

 

Press to download the mp3 file of Honduras’s National anthem – See link (file source: cia world factbook).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm_Ioic79cA

 

Chorus

Your flag is a splendour of sky

Crossed with a band of snow;

And there can be seen, in its sacred depths,

Five pale blue stars.

In your emblem, which a rough sea

With its wild waves protects,

Behind the bare summit of a volcano,

A star brightly shines.

 

Like an Indian maiden you have been sleeping,

Lulled by the resonant song of your seas,

When, set in your golden valleys,

The bold navigator found you;

And on seeing, enraptured, your beauty,

And feeling your enchantment,

He dedicated a kiss of love to the blue hem

of your splendid mantle.

 

From a country where the sun rises,

Beyond the blue Atlantic,

That man who had dreamt you

In search of you he launched to sea.

When you raised your pale forehead,

In the lively anxiousness of your hope,

Under the gentle dome of your sky

Already floated a strange banner.

 

It was useless that your beloved Indian

Rushed into the fight with ire,

Because, covered with his blood, Lempira,

In the deep night he sank;

And of the heroic deed, in memory,

The legend alone has kept

A sepulcher in a forgotten place,

And the severe profile of a mountain peak.

 

For three centuries your children heard

The imperious mandate of the master;

For three centuries your useless complaint

In the blue atmosphere was lost

But one glorious day your ear

Perceived, powerful and distant,

That there, far away, over the Atlantic,

Indignantly, a lion roared.

 

It was France, the free, the heroic,

Which in its dreams of centuries slept,

Awoke irate to life

At the virile protest of Danton:

It was France, who sent to the death

The head of the consecrated King,

And which built up proudly at its side,

The altar of the goddess of Reason.

 

You also, oh my country!, arose

From your servile deep sleep;

You also showed the world

The infamous shackle destroyed.

And in your blessed soil, behind the tall

Hair of the wild jungle,

Like a bird of black feathers,

The fleeting colony was lost.

 

To guard this sacred emblem

We shall march, oh fatherland, to our death;

Our death will be honoured

If we die thinking of your love.

Having defended your holy flag,

And shrouded in its glorious folds,

Many, Honduras, shall die for you,

But shall fall in honour.

 

You can find more information about Honduran anthem on Wikipedia – See link.

Honduran national symbol: scarlet macaw; white-tailed deer.

Conventional short form country name: Honduras.

Conventional long form country name: Republic of Honduras.

Local short form country name: Honduras.

Local long form country name: Republica de Honduras.

 

Honduras Government Type: democratic constitutional republic.

 

Democratic republic is a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.ֲ

 

Constitutional is a government by or operating under an authoritative document (constitution) that sets forth the system of fundamental laws and principles that determines the nature, functions, and limits of that government.ֲ