The combined impact of civil strife and…

The combined impact of civil strife and foreign interventions has doomed Honduras to a position of relative economic and social backwardness throughout the nineteenth century.

The country has remained overwhelmingly rural; Tegucigalpa, Comayagua, and San Pedro Sula are the only towns of any size.

In the early 1850s, the total population was estimated at three hundred and fifty thousand, the over- whelming majority of whom were mestizos.

By 1914 the population will have grown to only five hundred and sixty-two thousand.