Honduras Infrastructure News

Guanaja's mayor says the municipality is reconstructing concrete bridges damaged by natural disasters, remodeling a school, and working with the national power company to repair generators and deploy a new one to address nightly blackouts lasting three to four hours.

The national power utility ENEE will cut electricity to neighborhoods in Tegucigalpa and La Lima on August 24 for scheduled maintenance, affecting residents for up to seven hours.

Tegucigalpa faces a critical water shortage, with tanker trucks waiting two to three hours at wells to fill up, while authorities have limited deliveries to two trips per day, leaving many neighborhoods short of supply.

Gustavo Boquín, general manager of Tegucigalpa's water utility, announced his resignation effective September 30, citing personal and professional reasons, as the capital faces one of its most severe water shortages in recent years.

Honduras's national power utility (ENEE) has scheduled outages for August 22 in Copán, El Paraíso, and Francisco Morazán departments, with cuts beginning between 8:20 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and lasting up to seven hours for maintenance work.

Tegucigalpa residents are rationing laundry, reusing water, and skipping daily routines as the capital's severe water shortage stretches for days without supply, affecting residents' physical and emotional well-being.

The government is delivering 126 excavators, graders, and tractors to 81 municipalities in a first phase worth $18 million, part of a broader $178 million program to improve roads, emergency response, and drought-affected areas.

The Tegucigalpa municipal government began clearing markets in Comayagüela a month ago, enforcing yellow-line boundaries to reclaim space for pedestrians and vehicle circulation in markets including Colón, Álvarez, and San Isidro.

The Central American bank approved financing for the Quiebra Montes dam project, which will increase water supply to 190,000 residents of Tegucigalpa, reduce dry-season rationing from once every nine days to every three days, and save the government about 21 million lempiras annually in electricity costs.

The Tegucigalpa municipal government reopened Salvador Mendieta Street in the historic center on August 17 after rebuilding about 40 meters of stone-paved roadway, a route that handles roughly 6,000 daily vehicles and serves some 200,000 residents, workers, and visitors.

The Tegucigalpa municipal government activated an AI-powered WhatsApp assistant that lets residents report potholes, water leaks, and clogged drains, and check water and trash-collection schedules, with plans to add more services later.

Honduras's national utility ENEE has scheduled maintenance outages on August 19 affecting neighborhoods in Francisco Morazán, Cortés, Intibucá, Copán, and Santa Bárbara, with most cuts lasting roughly six hours between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.

The L9.8 million pedestrian bridge in Tegucigalpa's Germania neighborhood, due to finish in January 2025, remains incomplete with only 40% progress, leaving over 700 students and residents to cross a busy highway daily; neighbors have threatened protests.

Honduras's main port halted ship delays since March and swung from 862 million lempiras in losses in 2025 to 423 million lempiras in profits in 2026, with plans to invest over $400 million in yard expansion, new cranes, and modernization at Puerto Cortés and the southern port of Henecán.

The national utility ENEE will cut power in sectors of El Paraíso, Intibucá, Francisco Morazán, and Valle on August 18 and 19 for scheduled maintenance of distribution lines.

Honduras's national sports authority is conducting technical surveys in the Bay Islands to assess sports facilities and secondary roads for potential improvements, with plans to upgrade stadiums in Roatán and Utila and pursue projects in football, basketball, volleyball, and baseball.

Roatán's municipal police launched a cleanup operation to remove abandoned and junked vehicles from public spaces across the island, including parking areas and beaches, to improve streets and public amenities.

Honduras National Port Authority signed agreements with regional operator OPC and specialized-terminal firm Logra to boost Puerto Cortés capacity to 1.4 million TEU annually and modernize bulk terminals with 621 million lempiras (about $25 million) in investment.

Several San Pedro Sula neighborhoods will lose power on August 17 from 8:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. in a scheduled six-hour outage.

Tegucigalpa's water utility reports that 40% of water entering the distribution system is lost through damaged pipes, compounding the capital's severe drought crisis as authorities expand water rationing and develop new wells.

The Property Institute plans to begin distributing metal license plates to roughly one million vehicles currently operating with temporary three-month permits in the final quarter of 2026, with owners paying 500 lempiras (about $20) per plate.

Honduras has published an expropriation decree to acquire land for the Libramiento Sur, an 8.8-kilometer bypass south of Tegucigalpa; the Infrastructure Ministry will begin notifying owners, with $16 million allocated for compensation, aiming to complete the project by late 2027 or early 2028.

ENEE will cut electricity to sectors of San Pedro Sula from 9 a.m. to noon and to much of Choluteca from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on August 16 for scheduled network maintenance.

UMAPS released a detailed water-distribution schedule for dozens of Tegucigalpa neighborhoods between August 15 and 23, with service times varying by zone; the utility noted delivery times depend on location and water pressure.

The European Union is offering up to €500 million (over L15.4 billion) to strengthen electricity transmission infrastructure in Honduras and Central America, including technical assistance, financing from the European Investment Bank, and technology transfer from European firms.

Infrastructure Secretary Aníbal Ehrler says landowners who bought property at $40–$50 per vara (about 33 square meters) are now demanding $350 per vara for expropriation, calling the markup excessive for public projects.

Deteriorating streets and numerous potholes in central San Pedro Sula are damaging vehicles, creating traffic hazards, and generating sanitation problems as water pools in damaged areas, residents and merchants say.

The national power company will cut electricity across neighborhoods in three departments on August 15 for transmission-line maintenance and private company work, with outages lasting seven to eight hours depending on location.

Honduras's national power utility ENEE has announced scheduled power cuts on August 14 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. affecting numerous neighborhoods, municipalities, and towns primarily in Atlántida department.

Tegucigalpa's mayor Juan Diego Zelaya declared a red alert as the capital's two main reservoirs dropped to critical levels—Los Laureles at 36% and Concepción at 29%—forcing water rationing to nine-day cycles and threatening food security and health across the region.