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Olancho Department
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department of Honduras
Key facts
- Country
- Honduras
- Capital city
- Juticalpa
- Type
- Departmental
- Governor
- Victor Moreno (2022-2026) ( LibRe )
- Total
- 24,038 km (9,281 sq mi)
- Density
- 22.352/km (57.892/sq mi)
- Per capita
- $2,000 (2023)
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CDT )
- Postal code
- 16101, 16201
- Iso 3166 code
- HN-OL
- Hdi 2021
- 0.578 , medium · 14th of 18
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Honduras
- Country
- Honduras
- Located in
- Honduras
- Contains
- Esquipulas del Norte
- Capital
- Juticalpa
- Population
- 520761
- Area
- 23905
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Francisco Morazán Department
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- Commons category
- Olancho Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Olancho Department
- inception
- 1825-06-28
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Olancho Department
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Encyclopedic overview
Olancho is the largest of all the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided. The department covers a total surface area of 24,057 km (9,288 sq mi) and has an estimated 2015 population of 537,306 inhabitants.
The departmental capital is Juticalpa, which is also the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Juticalpa, which covers the department.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Olancho Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.