Honduras Flags – Honduran Flag, Bunting & Hand Flags

The Honduras flag: blue, white and five stars

The flag of Honduras has three horizontal bands, blue, white and blue, with five blue five-pointed stars arranged in an X in the centre of the white band. The blue bands stand for the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea and the white for the land between them and for peace, while the five stars represent the five nations of the former Federal Republic of Central America, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and the hope that they might one day reunite. The stars were added by decree on 16 February 1866 to the federation’s blue-white-blue design. With no coat of arms and a simple pattern of stars, the Honduran flag is easy to tell apart from the flags of El Salvador and Nicaragua, which carry emblems on the white band. Our Honduras flag shows the five stars clearly in the centre.

Independence, Flag Day and Los Catrachos

Independence Day on 15 September is shared with the rest of Central America, with parades, marching bands and the flag on every school, and Flag Day on 1 September opens the patriotic month. Hondurans call themselves Catrachos, and the football team, Los Catrachos or La H, draws passionate support at the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula. The Bay Islands of Roatán and Utila are known to British divers for the Mesoamerican reef and the whale shark season, and the Mayan city of Copán draws archaeology travellers. The UK’s Honduran community is small, centred on London’s Latin American churches and cultural groups, and the flag is also used by Garifuna cultural groups, volunteers and gap-year travellers.

Sizes, grades and fittings

Two grades of Honduras flag are kept in stock. For the Honduras flag, Flagtex, the printed woven polyester that suits indoor use or occasional days outside, comes in 3ft x 2ft, 5ft x 3ft and 8ft x 5ft with eyelets; DuraFlag, the knitted heavyweight polyester with double-stitched hems for permanent flying, comes in 20x12in with rope and toggle and in 3ft x 2ft, 5ft x 3ft and 8ft x 5ft with clips. Hang the 5ft x 3ft from a pole or a balcony, the 3ft x 2ft in a window or a dive centre, the 8ft x 5ft for a stage or a big mast and the 20x12in on the car during the patriotic month.

Honduras bunting

Honduras bunting is a string of rectangular pennants showing the blue and white bands with the five stars, sold in 3m and 9m lengths. Use 3m over a doorway, a stall or a classroom wall, and 9m round a hall, a restaurant or a garden party in September. The Honduran pennants are printed on both sides of a weatherproof polyester.

Hand flags and table flags

Honduras hand flags on wooden sticks come in 9x6in and 18x12in for football, school parades and September celebrations. The Honduras table flag is a 6x4in flag on a base for a desk, a dive shop counter or a family table, and the large wooden Honduras table flag at 18x12in suits an embassy office or a reception table. Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Belize and Costa Rica flags are under world flags.

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Popular in this collection

• Honduras Flag (20x12in to 8x5ft, Flagtex or DuraFlag)from £6.99
• Honduras Bunting (3m or 9m)from £9.98
• Honduras Hand Flags (9x6in, 18x12in)from £5.99
• Honduras Table Flag 6x4in with Basefrom £1.98
• Honduras Large Wooden Table Flagfrom £3.98