Coxen Hole
Encyclopedia
Coxen Hole, also called Roatan Town, is the largest city on the island of Roatán
, and the capital of the Bay Islands
department of Honduras
, with a population of 5,070 as of census
2001. It is also the location of the island's Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport
.
Bus
service connects Coxen Hole with other points on the island. Coxen Hole Stadium
is located in the town. There is also a small hospital, Woods Medical Facility.
The city was founded in 1835 when several families moved to Roatán from the Cayman Islands
.
Roatán
Roatán, located between the islands of Útila and Guanaja, is the largest of Honduras' Bay Islands. The island was formerly known as Ruatan and Rattan...
, and the capital of the Bay Islands
Bay Islands (department)
Islas de la Bahía is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided. The departmental capital is Roatan, on the island of Roatán....
department of Honduras
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
, with a population of 5,070 as of census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
2001. It is also the location of the island's Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport
Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport
Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport is an airport located on the island of Roatán in the Bay Islands Department in Honduras. It serves national and international air traffic of the island. The airport is named for Juan Manuel Gálvez the former president of Honduras...
.
Bus
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...
service connects Coxen Hole with other points on the island. Coxen Hole Stadium
Coxen Hole Stadium
Coxen Hole Stadium is a football stadium in Coxen Hole, Roatan, Honduras. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Arsenal FC. The stadium holds 2,000 people....
is located in the town. There is also a small hospital, Woods Medical Facility.
The city was founded in 1835 when several families moved to Roatán from the Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union located in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, located south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica...
.