El Rosario () is a town () and a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the west of the
Honduran department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
of
Olancho
Olancho is the largest of all the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided. The department covers a total surface area of 24,057 km² and has an estimated 2015 population of 537,306 inhabitants.
The departmental capital is Juticalpa, w ...
.
It is south-east of
Yocón
Yocón is a municipality in the west of the Honduran department of Olancho, north of Guayape, south of Mangulile and west of El Rosario.
Demographics
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Yocón municipality had a population of 11,812. O ...
, north-east of
Guayape
Guayape is a municipality in the west of the Honduran department of Olancho, west of Salamá, south of Yocón and north of Concordia.
Guayape is divided into three huge territories. Some even covering the river.
The lands are divided by the ...
and north-west of
Salamá
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.
The town had a lumber mill, school, clinic, and a public library, La Biblioteca Regional de Dr. Dean J. Seibert.
In 2018, El Rosario experienced
drought
A drought is defined as drier than normal conditions.Douville, H., K. Raghavan, J. Renwick, R.P. Allan, P.A. Arias, M. Barlow, R. Cerezo-Mota, A. Cherchi, T.Y. Gan, J. Gergis, D. Jiang, A. Khan, W. Pokam Mba, D. Rosenfeld, J. Tierney, an ...
and
failures of the corn and bean crops, as the August rains did not come. Residents have attributed the drought to
climate change
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, and to logging which has depleted the pine forests surrounding the town.
Demographics
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, El Rosario municipality had a population of 4,224. Of these, 99.48% were
Mestizo
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, 0.31%
Black or Afro-Honduran, 0.17%
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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and 0.05%
White
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.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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See also
* Central American dry corridor
Notes
Municipalities of the Olancho Department
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