Yoro Department

Coordinates: 15°08′N 87°06′W / 15.133°N 87.100°W / 15.133; -87.100
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Yoro Department
Departamento de Yoro
CDT)
Postal code
53101
ISO 3166 codeHN-YO
HDI (2021)0.609[2]
medium · 5th of 18
Statistics derived from Consult INE online database: Population and Housing Census 2013[3]

Yoro is one of the 18

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

Municipalities

  1. Arenal
  2. El Negrito
  3. El Progreso
  4. Jocón
  5. Morazán
  6. Olanchito
  7. Santa Rita
  8. Sulaco
  9. Victoria
  10. Yorito
  11. Yoro

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Yoro Department had a population of 570,595. Of these, 88.12% were Mestizo, 7.26% White, 3.79% Indigenous (2.92% Tolupan, 0.39% Chʼortiʼ, 0.28% Lenca, 0.09% Nahua), 0.71% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.12% others.[4]

Economy

The department, historically, is known for harvesting

cedar trees for exportation. The area also had a cattle industry.[5]

Football players from Yoro

A number of football players are from the department.

Name Club City
Carlos Pavón Real España El Progreso
Milton Reyes
Motagua
Jocón
Sergio Mendoza
Motagua
Yoro
Johnny Leveron
Motagua
Yoro
Alfredo Mejía Real España El Negrito
Ever Alvarado
Real España El Negrito
Juan C. Acevedo Real España El Progreso
Johnny Rivera Real España El Progreso
Leonardo Isaula Necaxa
Yoro
Anthony Lozano Alcoyano
Yoro
Wilfredo Bueso Valle Platense F.C. El Progreso

Notes

  1. ^ Yoro was one of the first 7 departments in which the national territory was divided in the first political division of Honduras in 1825.

References

  1. ^ "TelluBase—Honduras Fact Sheet (Tellusant Public Service Series)" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  2. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  3. ^ "Consulta Base de datos INE en línea: Censo de Población y Vivienda 2013" [Consult INE online database: Population and Housing Census 2013]. Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) (in Spanish). El Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE). 1 August 2018. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  4. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
  5. ^ Baily, John (1850). Central America; Describing Each of the States of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. London: Trelawney Saunders. p. 119.