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Olanchito is a municipality in the department of Yoro, Honduras, and a town with a population of 49,750 as of 2023. [3] The municipality was founded in 1530 and comprises 70 villages, approximately 300 hamlets, and a population of 124,286. [2] It is located 107 miles (172 km) northeast of Tegucigalpa, the country's capital.
Coyoles Central is a village in the municipality of Olanchito in Honduras. [2] [3] It is located in the department of Yoro, in the central part of Honduras, 160 km north of the capital Tegucigalpa.
It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.
Yoro, with a population of 27,460 (2023 calculation), [2] is the capital city of the Yoro Department of Honduras and the municipal seat of Yoro Municipality. It is notable for a local event known as Lluvia de Peces , where it is claimed that strong storms make fish fall from [ 3 ] the sky.
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Arenal municipality had a population of 5,949. Of these, 99.51% were Mestizo , 0.24% Black or Afro-Honduran , 0.22% Indigenous and 0.03% White . [ 1 ]
The departmental capital is Yoro. The department covers a total surface area of 7,939 km 2 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 are the only administrative division in Honduras that possess local government. Each municipality has its own elected mayor 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 ]
El Arrayán Airport (IATA: OAN, ICAO: MHEA) is an airport serving the city of Olanchito in Yoro Department, Honduras. The runway is just north of the city, and also serves as a local road segment. There is high terrain northwest through east of the airport.