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Choluteca Department
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Key facts
- Country
- Honduras
- Founded
- June 28, 1825
- Capital city
- Choluteca
- Governor
- Ilse Villatoro (2022–2026) ( LibRe )
- Total
- 4,397 km (1,698 sq mi)
- Density
- 101.9/km (263.8/sq mi)
- Per capita
- $1,800 (2023)
- Time zone
- UTC+6 ( CDT )
- Postal code
- 51101, 51201
- Iso 3166 code
- HN-CH
- Hdi 2021
- 0.583 , medium · 13th of 18
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Honduras
- Country
- Honduras
- Located in
- Honduras
- Contains
- San Antonio de Flores
- Capital
- Choluteca
- Population
- 420350
- Area
- 4360
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- El Paraíso Department
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- Commons category
- Choluteca Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Choluteca Department
- inception
- 1825-06-28
- different from
- Choluteca
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Choluteca Department
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Encyclopedic overview
Choluteca is one of the 18 departments (departamentos) into which Honduras is divided. The departmental capital is the city of Choluteca. The Choluteca River runs through the department.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Choluteca Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.