Key facts
- Country
- Honduras
- Founded
- 11 July 1893
- Capital city
- Nacaome
- Type
- Departmental
- Governor
- Gonzalo Posadas (2022-2026) ( LibRe )
- Total
- 1,618 km (625 sq mi)
- Density
- 110.4/km (285.8/sq mi)
- Per capita
- $2,000 (2023)
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CDT )
- Iso 3166 code
- HN-VA
- Hdi 2021
- 0.589 , medium · 10th of 18
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Honduras
- Country
- Honduras
- Located in
- Honduras
- Contains
- San Lorenzo
- Capital
- Nacaome
- Population
- 174511
- Area
- 1665
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- La Unión Department
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- language used
- Lencan
- Commons category
- Valle Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Valle Department
- inception
- 1893-07-11
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Valle Department
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Valle is one of the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided.
The departmental capital is Nacaome. The department faces the Gulf of Fonseca and contains mangrove swamps; inland, it is very hot and dry.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valle Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.