Key facts
- Country
- Honduras
- Founded
- 19 December 1881
- Capital city
- Trujillo
- Largest city
- Tocoa
- Governor
- Ixcer Barahona (2022–2026) ( LibRe )
- Total
- 8,276 km (3,195 sq mi)
- Density
- 38.64/km (100.1/sq mi)
- Per capita
- $2,500 (2023)
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CDT )
- Iso 3166 code
- HN-CL
- Hdi 2021
- 0.599 , medium · 7th of 18
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Honduras
- Country
- Honduras
- Located in
- Honduras
- Contains
- Bonito Oriental
- Capital
- Trujillo
- Population
- 309926
- Area
- 8249
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Yoro Department
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- inception
- 1881-12-19
- Commons category
- Colón Department, Honduras
- topic's main category
- Category:Colón Department (Honduras)
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Colón Department (Honduras)
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Encyclopedic overview
Colón is one of the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided. It was created in 1881. The departmental capital is Trujillo, and the other main city is Tocoa. Trujillo was the site of the first Catholic mass on the American mainland, held when Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón) reached the Honduran shore in 1502.
Colón harbors a substantial Garifuna population and has pristine beaches and rainforested national parks. The Fort of Santa Barbara, built by the Spaniards in the colonial era, was the site of the execution of US filibuster William Walker in Trujillo, and his remains are buried in the city's graveyard.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colón Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.