Worth knowing
Honduras
Yoro holds a festival for its Lluvia de Peces, the rain of fish. One idea is that floods wash the fish up from underground streams, another that waterspouts carry them. Neither is proven.
Where its story happens
Yoro, at 15.13°N, 87.13°W. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Honduras
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Honduras, in Central America, between Guatemala and Nicaragua. See Honduras on a map.
- Its capital is Tegucigalpa, and divers come for its Caribbean island of Roatán.
- The longest known Maya inscription is carved on a stone stairway in its ancient city of Copán.
- Its name means 'depths' in Spanish, after the deep water Columbus found off its coast.
- In one of its towns, people say that every year, after a great storm, it rains fish.