Yocón 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 west of the
Honduran department of
Olancho, north of
Guayape
Guayape is a municipality in the west of the Honduran department of Olancho, west of Salamá, south of Yocón and north of Concordia.
Guayape is divided into three huge territories. Some even covering the river.
The lands are divided by th ...
, south of
Mangulile and west of
El Rosario.
Demographics
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Yocón municipality had a population of 11,812. Of these, 99.24% were
Mestizo
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, 0.45%
Indigenous, 0.20%
Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.11%
White
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.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References
Municipalities of the Olancho Department
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