Quimistán is a town, with a population of 6,270 (2013 census),Citypopulation.de
Population of the localities in Quimistán Municipality and a

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in Santa Bárbara Department of

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...

. The largest town of the municipality is Quimistan, with a population of 6,478 (2013 census).

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Quimistán municipality had a population of 47,993. Of these, 89.30% were

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, 6.16%

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(5.92%

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), 3.97%

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, 0.56% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.01% others.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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Notable people

Mauricio Sabillón Mauricio Alberto Sabillón Peña (born 11 November 1978) is a Honduras, Honduran former football (soccer), football player who last played for C.D. Marathón, Marathón. He played for the Honduras national football team from 2001 to 2012, earn ...

, football player

References

Municipalities of the Santa Bárbara Department, Honduras {{Honduras-geo-stub