Cabañas 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
La Paz
La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities ...
.
Demographics
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, La Paz municipality had a population of 3,253. Of these, 85.93% were
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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(85.89%
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 ...
), 12.40%
Mestizo
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, 0.86%
Black or Afro-Honduran, 0.56%
White
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and 0.25% others.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References
Municipalities of the La Paz Department (Honduras)
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