Roatan, located between the islands of Útila and Guanaja, is the largest of Honduras' Bay Islands. It is approximately 37 miles long, and less than 5 miles wide at its widest point. Located near the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the largest barrier reef in the Caribbean Sea (second largest worldwide after Australia's Great Barrier Reef), Roatan has become an important cruise ship and scuba diving destination in Honduras. Tourism is its most important economic sector, though fishing is also an important source of income for islanders.
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The Caracol people are an English-speaking people who have been established in Northern Honduras (specifically, the Bay Islands) since the early 19th century. They are chiefly of European and British-Afro-Caribbean descent. Caracol is Spanish for "conch, snail or shell", and relates the people of the Bay Islands to their unique environment and their sea-faring culture. In its current usage, the term caracol refers to all people born in the Bay Islands region, and their descendants. The region of the Bay Islands encompasses the three major islands of Roatan, Utila, and Guanaja, and the smaller islands or keys. These people are also called "Islanders," especially locally.
(Views from the hills of Roatan looking
out towards to the Caribbean Sea)
- The average annual temperature is 81 degrees
- Average water temps: 76 F in winter and 83 F in Summer
- 30,000 residents of Roatan, around 3,000 of them American
- Spanish and English are both spoken widely on the island
- Driving here is easy, there are car rentals and you drive on the right lane
- US dollars are widely accepted on the island
- Honduras is on Central Standard Time Zone
Roatan Airlines Direct Flights
Roatan is an easy travel destination with Delta, Continental, American, and TACA as the main carriers that fly to Roatan Island. Direct Flights are offered primarily on the weekends.
On Saturdays, TACA offers direct flights from Houston and Miami. Continental offers direct flights from Houston. Delta offers direct flights from Atlanta.
On Sundays,TACA offers direct flights from Miami to Roatan. Between January - August, Continental will have flights from Houston directly to Roatan.
USA Airlines include:
Continental (www.continental.com)
Delta (www.delta.com)
TACA (www.taca.com)
