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Omoa
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Omoa is a town and municipality with a population of 10,550 (2023 calculation) in the Department of Cortés in Honduras. Omoa is located on a small bay of the same name 18 km west of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea coast.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Omoa
Settlement.native_name
Omoa
Settlement.nickname
Omoa
Settlement.settlement_type
Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline
Omoa-05.jpg
Settlement.imagesize
300px
Settlement.pushpin_map
Honduras
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
300
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
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Department
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Cortés
Settlement.established_title
Foundation
Settlement.established_date
1752
Settlement.area_total_km2
394
Settlement.population_as_of
2023 projection
Settlement.population_total
58172
Settlement.population_density_km2
auto
Settlement.population_urban
30334

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5 sections
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  • Geography
  • History
  • Economy
  • San Fernando of Omoa
  • Notes

Omoa is a town and municipality with a population of 10,550 (2023 calculation) in the Department of Cortés in Honduras. Omoa is located on a small bay of the same name 18 km west of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea coast.

== Geography == Omoa is both a municipality and a small town located along the Northwest Caribbean coast of Honduras. It is populated by about 30,000 people distributed within an area of 382.8 km².

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Omoa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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