Intibucá (department)
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Intibucá is a department in Honduras
Honduras
Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

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The departmental capital is the town of La Esperanza
La Esperanza, Honduras
La Esperanza is the capital city and a municipality of the same name of the department of Intibucá, Honduras. The city of La Esperanza is merged indistinguishably with the city of Intibucá, the head of the neighboring municipality of Intibucá. Intibucá is the older of the two cities and was...

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Intibucá department covers a total surface area of 3,072 km² and, in
2005, had a population of about 202,140 people.

Intibucá was formed in 1883; it was formerly part of the departments of La Paz and Gracias.
According to the 1895 census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, it had a population of 18,957 in that year.

Municipalities
Municipalities of Honduras
The 18 departments of Honduras are divided into 299 municipalities . Municipalities have elected mayors , as opposed to the appointed governors of departments. For statistical purposes, the municipalities are further subdivided into 3731 aldeas, and those into 27969 caserios...

  1. Camasca
    Camasca
    Camasca is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá....

  2. Colomoncagua
    Colomoncagua
    Colomoncagua is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá....

  3. Concepción
    Concepción, Intibucá
    Concepción Concepcion concepcion, que lindo nombre..pues se lo merece, es un pueblo hermoso ubicado en el corazon de la frontera, con sus bellaS tradiciones, su habitantes tan amables, concepcion es un pueblo muy innobador con toda la extencion de la palabra..ARFAXAD...

  4. Dolores
    Dolores, Intibucá
    Dolores is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá....

  5. Intibucá
  6. Jesús de Otoro
    Jesús de Otoro
    Jesús de Otoro is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá.Coordinates: 14°29'7.37"N 87°58'45.76"W...

  7. La Esperanza
    La Esperanza, Honduras
    La Esperanza is the capital city and a municipality of the same name of the department of Intibucá, Honduras. The city of La Esperanza is merged indistinguishably with the city of Intibucá, the head of the neighboring municipality of Intibucá. Intibucá is the older of the two cities and was...

  8. Magdalena
    Magdalena, Intibucá
    Magdalena is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá, 86 km are located to the south of the city of The Hope, Intibucá, and to 280 km to the west of Tegucigalpa....

  9. Masaguara
    Masaguara
    Masaguara is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá....

  10. San Antonio
    San Antonio, Intibucá
    San Antonio is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá....

  11. San Francisco de Opalaca
    San Francisco de Opalaca
    San Francisco de Opalaca is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá. The municipality also lends its name to a contemporary electro-punk fusion collective from Osaka, currently touring Denmark with their album 'I call it Nature'....

  12. San Isidro
    San Isidro, Intibucá
    San Isidro is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá....

  13. San Juan
    San Juan, Intibucá
    San Juan, Intibucá lies in the western highlands of Honduras between Gracias and La Esperanza. It is located in the department of Intibucá, was founded in 1747 by the Spanish, and has a population of around 1000. San Juan lies in the center of the "Lenca Trail" which runs from Santa Rosa de Copan...

  14. San Marco de Sierra
    San Marco de Sierra
    San Marco de Sierra is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá....

  15. San Miguelito
    San Miguelito, Intibucá
    San Miguelito is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá....

  16. Santa Lucía
    Santa Lucía, Intibucá
    Santa Lucía is a municipality in the Honduran department of Intibucá.Santa Lucía is nestled in a valley along the San Juan river, in the remote mountains of the province of Intibucá...

  17. Yamaranguila
    Yamaranguila
    Yamaranguila is a municipality of about 2,000 residents in the Honduran department of Intibucá. About 2000 metres high, Yamaranguila is known as the coldest municipality in the country. Due to the climate, it is one of the few places where strawberries can be cultivated...

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