Brus Laguna () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the Honduran

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of Gracias a Dios. The municipality's population is about 13,200 inhabitants. It is served by

Brus Laguna Airport Brus Laguna Airport is an airstrip serving the town of Brus Laguna in Gracias a Dios Department, Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by ...

, a gravel

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south of town.

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Brus Laguna municipality had a population of 12,720. Of these, 78.63% were

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(77.64%

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), 20.25%

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, 0.52%

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, 0.45% Afro-Honduran or Black and 0.16% others.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References

Municipalities of the Gracias a Dios Department Road-inaccessible communities of North America {{Honduras-geo-stub