Departments 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 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]

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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: 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
DepartmentDepartment
capital		Population
(2001 census)		Population
(2013 census)[4]		Population
change (%)		Area
(km2)[5]		Municipalities
1.AtlántidaLa Ceiba344,099436,252 18.444,3728
2.CholutecaCholuteca390,805437,618 17.484,36016
3.ColónTrujillo246,708309,926 18.988,24910
4.ComayaguaComayagua352,881493,466 25.335,12421
5.CopánSanta Rosa de Copán288,766371,057 25.443,24223
6.CortésSan Pedro Sula1,202,5101,562,394 30.583,92312
7.El ParaísoYuscarán350,054455,507 22.057,48918
8.Francisco MorazánTegucigalpa1,180,6761,508,906 21.448,61928
9.Gracias a DiosPuerto Lempira67,38490,765 31.0616,9976
10.IntibucáLa Esperanza179,862232,553 29.273,12317
11.Islas de la BahíaRoatán38,07362,557 29.122364
12.La PazLa Paz156,560198,926 25.402,33119
13.LempiraGracias250,067321,179 26.194,23428
14.OcotepequeNueva Ocotepeque108,029146,030 22.611,63017
15.OlanchoJuticalpa419,561520,761 21.4524,05723
16.Santa BárbaraSanta Bárbara342,054421,337 17.635,02428
17.ValleNacaome151,841174,511 13.021,6659
18.YoroYoro465,414570,595 18.637,78111
Total––6,535,3448,303,771 27.06112,457

Population data source:[6]

See also

References
  1. "Honduras: Political Organization / Organizacion Política". Pdba.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  2. "DECRETO NUMERO 134-90 : EL CONGRESO NACIONAL" (PDF). Poderjudicial.gob.hn. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  3. "Honduras: Political Organization / Organizacion Política". Pdba.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  4. Honduran National Institute of Statistics Archived 2010-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Honduras at GeoHive Archived 2016-08-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. "GeoHive - Honduras population statistics". Web.archive.org. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2017.


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