Esquipulas del Norte 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 north 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, ...

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 ...

, east of

Guata Guata is a Municipalities of Honduras, municipality in the north west of the Honduras, Honduran Departments of Honduras, department of Olancho department, Olancho, west of Gualaco, north of Manto, Olancho, Manto and east of Jano and Esquipulas de ...

and north of

Jano Jano is a town and Municipalities of Honduras, municipality in the north west of the Honduras, Honduran Departments of Honduras, department of Olancho department, Olancho, west of Guata, south of Esquipulas del Norte and north of Manto, Olancho, ...

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Esquipulas del Norte municipality had a population of 10,138. Of these, 98.75% were

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, 0.78%

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, 0.27%

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and 0.21% Black or Afro-Honduran.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References

Municipalities of the Olancho Department {{Honduras-geo-stub