HONDURAS

HONDURAS.

Blanca Jeannette Kawas National Park.
Airmail Minisheet issued on 08.02.2013 (dated 2012).
Face value: 3 x 15 and 3 x 15 (= 120) Honduran lempiras.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Published by HONDUCOR, Empresa de Correos de Honduras.

Catalogs
- Michel No. BL102.
- Scott No. C1307.
- StampWorld No. 2034/2039.

Blanca Jeannette Kawas National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Blanca Jeannette Kawas) is located in the municipality of Tela, on the northern Caribbean coast of the Atlántida department of Honduras. The park covers an area of 781.62 km² (301.79 sq mi) and has an maximal altitude of some 900 m (2,953 ft). It was established on November 4, 1994 as Punta Sal National Park. Its name was changed to Blanca Jeannette Kawas National Park in honor of Jeannette Kawas, an environmental activist who was murdered on February 6, 1995 for her work trying to keep the palm plantations out of the park. The park is made up of varied marine, terrestrial and wetlands ecosystems with a large number of species. These ecosystems include beaches, tropical forests, inundated forests, mangrove forests, lagoons and rivers.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).