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Camasca is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...
in the Honduran department of Intibucá.


Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Camasca municipality had a population of 6,781. Of these, 94.41% were Indigenous (93.88%
Lenca The Lenca or Lepawiran "people of the jaguar" are from present day southwest Honduras and eastern El Salvador in Central America. They once spoke many Dialects such as Chilanga, Putun, Kotik etc. Although there were different dialects, they un ...
), 5.28%
Mestizo (; ; fem. ) is a term used for racial classification to refer to a person of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry. In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also refer to people who are culturally European even though thei ...
, 0.25% Afro-Honduran or Black, 0.01%
White White is the lightness, lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully diffuse reflection, reflect and scattering, scatter all the ...
and 0.04% others.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References

Municipalities of the Intibucá Department {{Honduras-geo-stub