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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 .
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]
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]
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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.
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.
December 3, 1869, Olanchito, d. January 25, 1919, Tegucigalpa) was a Honduran politician. [1] Mejía studied law at the National University of Honduras. He then moved to Guatemala, where he worked as public notary for a few years. Returning to Honduras, he settled in La Ceiba where he founded the newspapers Pueblo and Patria.