Yoro, with a population of 101,849 (2022 calculation), is the capital city of the Yoro Department of

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and the municipal seat of Yoro Municipality. It is notable for a local event known as Lluvia de Peces, where it is claimed that strong storms make fish fall from the sky.

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Yoro municipality had a population of 86,665. Of these, 86.52% were

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, 10.65% Indigenous (10.05% Tolupan, 0.41%

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), 1.98%

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, 0.80% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.05% others.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References

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