Departments of Honduras

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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.[1][2][3]

Departments of Honduras

Evolution of Honduras's territorial organization

A historical timelapse of the formation of Honduran departments
  • 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: 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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DepartmentDepartment
capital		PopulationArea
(km2)[4]		 Population
density
(2013)		 Municipalities
2001 census2013 census[5]Change (%)
1.AtlántidaLa Ceiba344,099436,252Increase 18.444,372 99.88
2.Bay IslandsRoatán38,07362,557Increase 17.48

229

 273.116
3.CholutecaCholuteca390,805437,618Increase 18.984,397 99.510
4.ColónTrujillo246,708309,926Increase 25.33

8,276

 37.421
5.ComayaguaComayagua352,881493,466Increase 25.44

5,120

96.323
6.CopánSanta Rosa de Copán288,766371,057Increase 30.583,239 114.512
7.CortésSan Pedro Sula1,202,5101,562,394Increase 22.05

3,911

 60.818
8.El ParaísoYuscarán350,054455,507Increase 21.447,218 175.128
9.Francisco MorazánTegucigalpa1,180,6761,508,906Increase 31.068,580 175.86
10.Gracias a DiosPuerto Lempira67,38490,765Increase 29.2715,876 5.917
11.IntibucáLa Esperanza179,862232,553Increase 29.123,126 74.44
12.La PazLa Paz156,560198,926Increase 25.402,534 78.519
13.LempiraGracias250,067321,179Increase 26.19

4,285

74.928
14.OcotepequeOcotepeque108,029146,030Increase 22.611,630 89.617
15.OlanchoJuticalpa419,561520,761Increase 21.4524,057 21.623
16.Santa BárbaraSanta Bárbara342,054421,337Increase 17.635,024 83.928
17.ValleNacaome151,841174,511Increase 13.021,665 104.89
18.YoroYoro465,414570,595Increase 18.637,781 73.311
Total––6,535,3448,303,771Increase 27.06112,457 73.9298
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