Yoro Department
Yoro Department
Departamento de Yoro | |
---|---|
CDT) | |
Postal code | 53101 |
ISO 3166 code | HN-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
- Arenal
- El Negrito
- El Progreso
- Jocón
- Morazán
- Olanchito
- Santa Rita
- Sulaco
- Victoria
- Yorito
- 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
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
- ^ 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
- ^ "TelluBase—Honduras Fact Sheet (Tellusant Public Service Series)" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-01-11.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
- ^ Baily, John (1850). Central America; Describing Each of the States of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. London: Trelawney Saunders. p. 119.