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Yoro Department
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Key facts
- Country
- Honduras
- Capital
- Yoro
- Largest city
- El Progreso
- Founded
- 28 June 1825
- Type
- Departmental
- Governor
- Tomas Ponce (2022-2026) ( LibRe )
- Total
- 7,787 km (3,007 sq mi)
- Density
- 75.43/km (195.4/sq mi)
- Per capita
- $2,400 (2023)
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CDT )
- Iso 3166 code
- HN-YO
- Hdi 2021
- 0.609 , medium · 5th of 18
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Honduras
- Country
- Honduras
- Located in
- Honduras
- Contains
- Victoria
- Capital
- Yoro
- Population
- 570595
- Area
- 7781
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Cortés Department
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- topic's main category
- Category:Yoro Department
- Commons category
- Yoro Department
- inception
- 1825-06-28
- language used
- Tol
- native label
- Yoro
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Yoro Department
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Encyclopedic overview
Yoro is one of the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided. The department contains rich agricultural lands, concentrated mainly on the valley of the Aguan River and the Sula Valley, on opposite ends. The departmental capital is Yoro. The department covers a total surface area of 7,939 km and, in 2005, had an estimated population of 503,886 people. It is famous for the Lluvia de peces (rain of fishes), a tradition by which fish fall from the sky during very heavy rains.
Municipalities
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