Ocotepeque
Sign in to saveOcotepeque is a municipality in the Honduran department of Ocotepeque. The town of Nueva Ocotepeque is the municipal seat and the capital of the department. Ocotepeque means: Pine Mountain.
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Place details
- Locality
- Ocotepeque
- Region
- Ocotepeque
- Country
- Honduras
- Population
- 8,780
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Ocotepeque
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Parque Ocotepeque Honduras .jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Honduras
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Ocotepeque
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Villages
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- 9
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1530
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 177
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020 projection
- Settlement.settlement_type
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Honduras
- Located in
- Ocotepeque Department
- Population
- +23096
- Area
- +174.8
- Elevation
- +819
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Capital of
- Ocotepeque Department
- Image
- Parque Ocotepeque Honduras .jpg
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- P1889
- Nueva Ocotepeque
- P12749
- 1448
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Ocotepeque is a municipality in the Honduran department of Ocotepeque. The town of Nueva Ocotepeque is the municipal seat and the capital of the department. Ocotepeque means: Pine Mountain.
The department borders two countries, Guatemala and El Salvador and covers 1,630 km2. It is mostly mountainous, and has a population of 111,474 (2006). Its main economic activities are agricultural, including coffee, corn, cabbage, sugar cane, and onions. Due to its favourable location just a few kilometres away from the border with El Salvador at El Poy, as well as the border with Guatemala at Agua Caliente, Ocotepeque has the economic benefit of being a tri-country centre of business. It also attracts residents of smaller neighbouring towns, who come to Ocotepeque to purchase things or to study.