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Guanaja Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels

municipality in Bay Islands Department, Honduras

About Guanaja

One of the cays off Guanaja, also called Guanaja or Bonacca or Low Cay (or just simply, The Cay), is near the main island, and contains most of the approximately 5,500 people who live in Guanaja (2015). The other two main settlements on Guanaja are Mangrove Bight and Savannah Bight. Smaller settlements includes Pelican Reef, East End and North East Bight. It is inhabited by the Caracol people, an English-speaking people who have been established in Northern Honduras (specifically, the Bay Islands) since the early 19th century and are mainly of European British-Caribbean descent. Caracol is a Spanish term that means conch, snail or shell, and relates the people of the Bay Islands to their unique environment and their seafaring culture. English is the first language of all native islanders r

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