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The Republic of Honduras is an independent country (although they refer to themselves as a “State”) in western Central America, bordered to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea, to the south by the Pacific Ocean, the west by Guatemala, and to the south east by Nicaragua .
The Pre-Columbian city of Copán is a locale in western Honduras, near to the Guatemalan border. It is the site of a major Mayan kingdom of the Classic era. The ancient kingdom, named Xukpi (Corner-Bundle), flourished from the 5th century AD to the early 9th century, with antecedents going back to at least the 2nd century AD. The Maya civilization decayed, and by the time the Spanish came to Honduras, the once great city-state of Copán was overrun by the jungle.