Highways in Honduras

The secondary network joins main cities to surrounding small towns and villages, and links the 18 Departments of Honduras; its total length is 2,554 km.

The local network consists of all the routes linking the small towns and villages; it is important for the 118 municipalities of Honduras, and has a total length of 8,214 km.

There is also a "tertiary" network, built by organizations such as the National Coffee Fund (Fondo Cafetero Nacional), the Honduran Coffee Institute (Instituto Hondureño del Cafe, IHCAFE), the Honduran Council for Forest Development (Consejo Hondureño de Desarrollo Forestal, COHDEFOR), the Honduran Social Investment Fund (Fondo Hondureño de Inversión Social, FHIS), the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Secretaría de Agricultura y Ganadería, SAG), in addition to municipalities, certain private companies, and any other organization not affiliated to the Road Fund nor to SOPTRAVI.

Carretera del Norte – CA-5 is a four-lane paved road 350 km in length linking Tegucigalpa with Comayagua, Siguatepeque, El Lago de Yojoa, Potrerillos, Pimienta, Búfalo, Villa Nueva and San Pedro Sula.

Carretera del Sur – CA-5 is a 100-km two-lane motorway in some parts three-lane linking Tegucigalpa with Sabanagrande, Pespire, finishing in Jícaro Galán, where it joins with the CA-1 Panamerican Highway.

Carretera CA-13 is a paved road 350 km in length linking San Pedro Sula with Omoa, Puerto Cortes, El Progreso, Tela, La Ceiba, and other towns on the Atlantic coast.