Atima is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the
Honduran department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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of
Santa Bárbara. In 2018 it had a population of 11,976. As of 2020 its mayor is Roger Gabriel Leiva Gonzales.
In 2021, two workers were stabbed fatally in the village of
Berlín.
Demographics
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Atima municipality had a population of 17,648. Of these, 88.62% were
Mestizo
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, 7.13%
Indigenous
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*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
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(6.96%
Lenca
The Lenca or Lepawiran "people of the jaguar" are from present day southwest Honduras and eastern El Salvador in Central America. They once spoke many Dialects such as Chilanga, Putun, Kotik etc. Although there were different dialects, they under ...
), 3.54%
White
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and 0.71%
Black or Afro-Honduran.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References
Municipalities of the Santa Bárbara Department, Honduras
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