Yoro is one of the 18

departments 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, ...

into which

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, ...

is divided. The department contains rich agricultural lands, concentrated mainly on the valley of the Aguan River and the Sula Valley, on opposite ends. The departmental capital is

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

. The department covers a total surface area of 7,939 km² and, in 2005, had an estimated population of 503,886 people. It is famous for the

Lluvia de Peces The (), also known as (), a form of rain of animals, is a phenomenon that has been occurring yearly for more than a century in Yoro, Honduras, in which fish are said to fall from the sky. It occurs up to four times in a year. It has attracted ...

(rain of fishes), a tradition by which fish fall from the sky during very heavy rains.

Municipalities

# Arenal # El Negrito #

El Progreso El Progreso () is a city, with a population of 120,600 (2023 calculation), and a municipality located in the Honduran Departments of Honduras, department of Yoro (department), Yoro. Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport of San Pedro Su ...

# Jocón # Morazán # Olanchito # Santa Rita # Sulaco # Victoria # Yorito #

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Yoro Department had a population of 570,595. Of these, 88.12% were

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, 7.26%

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, 3.79% Indigenous (2.92%

Tolupan The Tolupan or Jicaque people are an Indigenous ethnic group of Honduras, primarily inhabiting the northwest coast of Honduras

, 0.39% Chʼortiʼ, 0.28%

Lenca The Lenca,are an Indigenous people from present day southwest Honduras and eastern El Salvador in Central America. They historically spoke various dialects of the Lencan languages such as Chilanga, Putun (Potón), and Kotik, but today are nat ...

, 0.09% Nahua), 0.71% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.12% others.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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Economy

The department, historically, is known for harvesting

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and cedar trees for exportation. The area also had a

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industry.

Football players from Yoro

A number of

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players are from the department.

Notes

References

Departments of Honduras {{Honduras-geo-stub