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Encyclopedia > Ocotepeque Department

Ocotepeque is one of the 18 departments (departamentos) into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.


Formed in 1906 from part of Copán Department.


The departmental capital is Nueva Ocotepeque.


The department covers a total surface area of 1,680 km˛ and, in 1991, had an estimated population of 77,000.


Municipalities

  1. Belén Gualcho
  2. Concepción
  3. Dolores Merendon
  4. Fraternidad
  5. La Encarnación
  6. La Labor
  7. Lucerna
  8. Mercedes
  9. Ocotepeque
  10. San Fernando
  11. San Francisco del Valle
  12. San Jorge
  13. San Marcos
  14. Santa Fé
  15. Sensenti
  16. Sinuapa




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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Departments of Honduras (0 words)
Omoa is a town in the Cortés department of Honduras, on the Caribbean Sea coast, to the west of Puerto Cortés.
The largest department by surface area is Olancho department and by population is Francisco Morazán department and the smallest by both surface area and population is the Islas de la Bahía department.
Puerto Lempira is the capital of the Gracias a Dios department of Honduras.
Honduras Departments (0 words)
I have found sources for the populations of the departments in the censuses of 1881, 1895, and 2001, and more details of nineteenth-century changes.
Aside from that, the departments are further subdivided into 298 municipalities (282 in 1980, 291 in 1995).
The capitals had the same names as their departments, except that Juticalpa was the capital of Olancho.
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