Gualaco 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 north of the Honduran

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

Olancho Olancho is the largest of all the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided. The department covers a total surface area of 24,057 km² and has an estimated 2015 population of 537,306 inhabitants. The departmental capital is Juticalpa, ...

, west of

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, north of

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and east of Guata. Gualaco is served by

Jicalapa Airport Jicalapa Airport is an airport serving the town of Gualaco in Olancho Department, Honduras. The grass runway parallels road V-453, southeast of Gualaco. There are hills north through east of the airport. See also * * * Transport in Honduras * ...

, a grass

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southeast of town.

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Gualaco municipality had a population of 21,863. Of these, 97.11% were

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, 1.76%

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, 0.56%

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, 0.50% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.07% others.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References

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