Departments of Honduras
is divided into 18 departments live for five consecutive years in the department; b) be Honduran; c) be older than 18 years of age and; d) know how to read and write.Evolution of Honduras's territorial organization
1825: The constitutional congress convened in that year orders that the state be divided into seven departments: Comayagua, Santa Bárbara, Tegucigalpa, Choluteca, Yoro, Olancho, and Gracias.
1834: An extraordinary constitutional assembly reduces the number of departments to four: this attempt fails to prosper, and the 1825 division remains in force.
1869: Congress orders the creation of the departments of La Paz, El Paraíso, Copán, and La Mosquitia.
1872: A department called Victoria is ordered to be split from Choluteca, but this never comes into effect. Islas de la Bahía department is founded.
1881: La Mosquitia joined with portions of Yoro to form Colón department.
1883: Intibucá department is formed from sections of La Paz and Gracias.
1893: Valle department and Cortés department are created.
1902: Parts of Yoro and Colón are taken to form the new department of Atlántida.
1906: Ocotepeque department is created by dividing the territory of Copán.
1957: Colón is divided in two to create Gracias a Dios department. | Department | Department
capital | Population
| Population
| Population
change | Area
| Municipalities |
| 1. | Atlántida | La Ceiba | 344,099 | 436,252 | 18.44 | 4,372 | 8 |
| 2. | Choluteca | Choluteca | 390,805 | 437,618 | 17.48 | 4,360 | 16 |
| 3. | Colón | Trujillo | 246,708 | 309,926 | 18.98 | 8,249 | 10 |
| 4. | Comayagua | Comayagua | 352,881 | 493,466 | 25.33 | 5,124 | 21 |
| 5. | Copán | Santa Rosa de Copán | 288,766 | 371,057 | 25.44 | 3,242 | 23 |
| 6. | Cortés | San Pedro Sula | 1,202,510 | 1,562,394 | 30.58 | 3,923 | 12 |
| 7. | El Paraíso | Yuscarán | 350,054 | 455,507 | 22.05 | 7,489 | 18 |
| 8. | Francisco Morazán | Tegucigalpa | 1,180,676 | 1,508,906 | 21.44 | 8,619 | 28 |
| 9. | Gracias a Dios | Puerto Lempira | 67,384 | 90,765 | 31.06 | 16,997 | 6 |
| 10. | Intibucá | La Esperanza | 179,862 | 232,553 | 29.27 | 3,123 | 17 |
| 11. | Islas de la Bahía | Roatán | 38,073 | 62,557 | 29.12 | 236 | 4 |
| 12. | La Paz | La Paz | 156,560 | 198,926 | 25.40 | 2,331 | 19 |
| 13. | Lempira | Gracias | 250,067 | 321,179 | 26.19 | 4,234 | 28 |
| 14. | Ocotepeque | Nueva Ocotepeque | 108,029 | 146,030 | 22.61 | 1,630 | 17 |
| 15. | Olancho | Juticalpa | 419,561 | 520,761 | 21.45 | 24,057 | 23 |
| 16. | Santa Bárbara | Santa Bárbara | 342,054 | 421,337 | 17.63 | 5,024 | 28 |
| 17. | Valle | Nacaome | 151,841 | 174,511 | 13.02 | 1,665 | 9 |
| 18. | Yoro | Yoro | 465,414 | 570,595 | 18.63 | 7,781 | 11 |
| Total | – | – | 6,535,344 | 8,303,771 | 27.06 | 112,457 | |
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