Departments of Honduras

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The Central American nation of Honduras is currently divided into 18 departments (departamentos). Each department is headed by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Honduras.

Departments of Honduras

	Department	Department capital	Population (2001)	Area (km2)
1.	Atlántida	La Ceiba	344,099	4,251
2.	Choluteca	Choluteca	390,805	4,211
3.	Colón	Trujillo	246,708	8,875
4.	Comayagua	Comayagua	352,881	5,196
5.	Copán	Santa Rosa de Copán	288,766	3,203
6.	Cortés	San Pedro Sula	1,202,510	3,954
7.	El Paraíso	Yuscarán	350,054	7,218
8.	Francisco Morazán	Tegucigalpa	1,180,676	7,946
9.	Gracias a Dios	Puerto Lempira	67,384	16,630
10.	Intibucá	La Esperanza	179,862	3,072
11.	Islas de la Bahía	Roatán	38,073	261
12.	La Paz	La Paz	156,560	2,331
13.	Lempira	Gracias	250,067	4,290
14.	Ocotepeque	Nueva Ocotepeque	108,029	1,680
15.	Olancho	Juticalpa	419,561	24,351
16.	Santa Bárbara	Santa Bárbara	342,054	5,115
17.	Valle	Nacaome	151,841	1,565
18.	Yoro	Yoro	465,414	7,939

Population data source: http://www.ine-hn.org/censo2001/p19.pdf

Evolution of Honduras's territorial organization

1825: The constitutional congress convened in that year orders that the state be divided into seven departments: Comayagua, Santa Bárbara, Tegucigalpa, Choluteca, Yoro, Olancho, and Gracias (later renamed Lempira).

1834: An extraordinary constitutional assembly reduces the number of departments to four: this attempt fails to prosper, and the 1825 division remains in force.

1869: Congress orders the creation of the departments of La Paz (broken away from Comayagua), El Paraíso (from Tegucigalpa and Olancho), Copán (from Gracias), and La Mosquitia (from Yoro).

1872: A department called Victoria is ordered to be split from Choluteca, but this never comes into effect. Islas de la Bahía department is founded (the islands were ceded to Honduras by the United Kingdom in 1860).

1881: Parts of Yoro and La Mosquitia are separated to form Colón department.

1883: Intibucá department is formed from sections of La Paz and Gracias.

1893: Valle department (split from Choluteca) and Cortés department (split from Santa Bárbara) are created.

1902: Parts of Yoro and Colón are taken to form the new department of Atlántida.

1906: Ocotepeque department is created by dividing the territory of Copán.

1957: Colón is divided in two to create Gracias a Dios department.

See also

• Honduras
• Municipalities of Honduras
• List of Honduras-related topics
• ISO 3166-2:HN

External links

• [1]: Statoids: Departments of Honduras