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Key facts
- Country
- Honduras
- Founded
- 28 June 1825
- Capital city
- Gracias
- Type
- Departmental
- Governor
- Jose Enamorado (2022-2026) ( LibRe )
- Total
- 4,285 km (1,654 sq mi)
- Density
- 77.74/km (201.4/sq mi)
- Per capita
- $3,700 (2023)
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CDT )
- Postal code
- 42101, 42201
- Iso 3166 code
- HN-LE
- Hdi 2021
- 0.544 , low · 18th of 18
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Honduras
- Named after
- Lempira
- Official name
- Lempira
- Country
- Honduras
- Located in
- Honduras
- Contains
- Piraera
- Capital
- Gracias
- Population
- 321179
- Area
- 4228
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Chalatenango Department
- Image
- La Flores,Lempira 6.JPG
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- Commons category
- Lempira Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Lempira Department
- inception
- 1825-06-28
- language used
- Lencan
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Lempira Department
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Encyclopedic overview
Church of San Manuel de Colohete Lempira is one of the 18 departments in Honduras. located in the western part of the country, it is bordered by the departments of Ocotepeque and Copán to the west, Intibucá to the east, and Santa Bárbara to the north. To its south lies the El Salvador–Honduras border. The departmental capital is Gracias.
It was named Gracias department until 1943. In colonial times, Gracias was an early important administrative center for the Spaniards. It eventually lost importance to Antigua, in Guatemala.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lempira Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.