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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.
[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 .
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.
Soto's neighbors took his body to the Anibal Murillo de Olanchito Hospital. [3] At the time of his death, Soto was only wearing shorts, a shirt, and socks, and had no valuables on him. [3] He was 31 years old when he died. [4] He left two daughters, a 3-year-old and a child who was only months old. [1]
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 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]
After spending almost 50 years looking for promotion to the top-tier division, they finally earned its right in the 2015–16 season as winners of the Honduran Liga de Ascenso. [3] In their Liga Nacional debut they faced Club Deportivo Olimpia in Tegucigalpa resulting in a 3–2 loss; meanwhile, their first victory occurred on 29 October 2016 ...
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 ]