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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.
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.
Telesistema Informativo (known as TSi) is a television station in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, broadcasting on Channel 3 and Channel 7 in NTSC and is owned by TVC. The station has repeaters in La Ceiba and Puerto Cortés, also on channel 7. Until 2016, the channel had programs of news, entertainment, series, sports and movies.
The (Roman Catholic) Diocese of Yoro (Latin: Dioecesis Yorensis) covers the department Yoro in Honduras.It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of San Pedro Sula.. The diocese was erected on 19 September 2005 with territory taken from the archdiocese of Tegucigalpa and was a suffragan of that archdiocese until the erection of the metropolitan province of San Pedro Sula in 2023.
[2] [3] It is located in the department of Yoro, in the central part of Honduras, 160 km north of the capital Tegucigalpa. Coyoles Central initially served as a company town for workers of Standard Fruit Company , [ 4 ] and was one of the principle settings in the book Prisión Verde [ es ] , [ 5 ] by Ramón Amaya Amador .
The former president of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, hails from the department, specifically from the city of Juticalpa. Also former president, now congressman, Manuel Zelaya Rosales is from the city of Catacamas, also from the department. [citation needed] The Olancho Department remained as one of the most violent areas in Honduras until 2012. [4]
Morazán (Spanish pronunciation:) is a town, with a population of 22,240 (2023 calculation), [2] and a municipality in the Honduran department of Yoro.This political division of 50,930 [3] people is in the north, located between the city of Yoro and the municipality of El Negrito, north of the Pico Pijol National Park.
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 ]