Three countries,
Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, have coastline along the Gulf of Fonseca,
and all three have been involved in a lengthly dispute over the rights to the gulf
and the islands located there within. In 1992, a chamber of the International
Court of Justice (ICJ) decided the Land, Island and Maritime Frontier Dispute,
of which the gulf dispute was a part. The ICJ determined that El Salvador,
Honduras, and Nicaragua were to share control of the Gulf of Fonseca. El
Salvador was awarded the islands of Meanguera and Meanguerita, and Honduras was
awarded the
