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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 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]

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

Department Department
capital		 Population
(2001 census)		 Population
(2013 census)[4]		 Population
change (%)		 Area
(km2)[5]		 Municipalities
1. Atlántida La Ceiba 344,099 436,252 Increase 18.44 4,372 8
2. Choluteca Choluteca 390,805 437,618 Increase 17.48 4,360 16
3. Colón Trujillo 246,708 309,926 Increase 18.98 8,249 10
4. Comayagua Comayagua 352,881 493,466 Increase 25.33 5,124 21
5. Copán Santa Rosa de Copán 288,766 371,057 Increase 25.44 3,242 23
6. Cortés San Pedro Sula 1,202,510 1,562,394 Increase 30.58 3,923 12
7. El Paraíso Yuscarán 350,054 455,507 Increase 22.05 7,489 18
8. Francisco Morazán Tegucigalpa 1,180,676 1,508,906 Increase 21.44 8,619 28
9. Gracias a Dios Puerto Lempira 67,384 90,765 Increase 31.06 16,997 6
10. Intibucá La Esperanza 179,862 232,553 Increase 29.27 3,123 17
11. Islas de la Bahía Roatán 38,073 62,557 Increase 29.12 236 4
12. La Paz La Paz 156,560 198,926 Increase 25.40 2,331 19
13. Lempira Gracias 250,067 321,179 Increase 26.19 4,234 28
14. Ocotepeque Nueva Ocotepeque 108,029 146,030 Increase 22.61 1,630 17
15. Olancho Juticalpa 419,561 520,761 Increase 21.45 24,057 23
16. Santa Bárbara Santa Bárbara 342,054 421,337 Increase 17.63 5,024 28
17. Valle Nacaome 151,841 174,511 Increase 13.02 1,665 9
18. Yoro Yoro 465,414 570,595 Increase 18.63 7,781 11
Total – – 6,535,344 8,303,771 Increase 27.06 112,457

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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