Departments of Honduras

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Departments of Honduras

Template:Politics of Honduras Honduras is divided into 18 departments (Spanish: departamentos). Each department is headed by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Honduras. The governor represents the executive branch in the region in addition to acting as intermediary between municipalities and various national authorities; resolves issues arising between municipalities; oversees the penitentiaries and prisons in his department; and regularly works with the various Secretaries of State that form the President's Cabinet. To be eligible for appointment as a governor, the individual must: a) live for five consecutive years in the department; b) be Honduran; c) be older than 18 years of age and; d) know how to read and write.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Evolution of Honduras's territorial organization

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  • 1825: The constitutional congress convened in that year orders that the state be divided into seven departments: Comayagua, Denver, 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: La Mosquitia joined with portions of Yoro 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.

Departments of Honduras

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Department Department
capital		 Population Area
(km2)<ref>Honduras at GeoHive Template:Webarchive.</ref> 		Population
density
(2013) 		Municipalities
2001 census 2013 census<ref>Honduran National Institute of Statistics Template:Webarchive</ref> Change (%)
1. Atlántida La Ceiba 344,099 436,252 Template:Increase 18.44 4,372 99.8 8
2. Bay Islands Roatán 38,073 62,557 Template:Increase 17.48

229

273.1 16
3. Choluteca Choluteca 390,805 437,618 Template:Increase 18.98 4,397 99.5 10
4. Colón Trujillo 246,708 309,926 Template:Increase 25.33

8,276

37.4 21
5. Comayagua Comayagua 352,881 493,466 Template:Increase 25.44

5,120

96.3 23
6. Copán Santa Rosa de Copán 288,766 371,057 Template:Increase 30.58 3,239 114.5 12
7. Cortés San Pedro Sula 1,202,510 1,562,394 Template:Increase 22.05

3,911

60.8 18
8. El Paraíso Yuscarán 350,054 455,507 Template:Increase 21.44 7,218 175.1 28
9. Francisco Morazán Tegucigalpa 1,180,676 1,508,906 Template:Increase 31.06 8,580 175.8 6
10. Gracias a Dios Puerto Lempira 67,384 90,765 Template:Increase 29.27 15,876 5.9 17
11. Intibucá La Esperanza 179,862 232,553 Template:Increase 29.12 3,126 74.4 4
12. La Paz La Paz 156,560 198,926 Template:Increase 25.40 2,534 78.5 19
13. Lempira Gracias 250,067 321,179 Template:Increase 26.19

4,285

74.9 28
14. Ocotepeque Ocotepeque 108,029 146,030 Template:Increase 22.61 1,630 89.6 17
15. Olancho Juticalpa 419,561 520,761 Template:Increase 21.45 24,057 21.6 23
16. Santa Bárbara Santa Bárbara 342,054 421,337 Template:Increase 17.63 5,024 83.9 28
17. Valle Nacaome 151,841 174,511 Template:Increase 13.02 1,665 104.8 9
18. Yoro Yoro 465,414 570,595 Template:Increase 18.63 7,781 73.3 11
Total – – 6,535,344 8,303,771 Template:Increase 27.06 112,457 73.9 298

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See also

References

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