Gualaco 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 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 ...

, west of San Esteban, north of

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and 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 ...

. Gualaco is served by

Jicalapa Airport Jicalapa Airport is an airport serving the town of Gualaco in Olancho Department, Honduras. The grass runway parallels road V-453, southeast of Gualaco. There are hills north through east of the airport. See also * * * Transport in Honduras * ...

, a grass

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southeast of town.

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Gualaco municipality had a population of 21,863. Of these, 97.11% were

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, 1.76%

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, 0.56% Indigenous, 0.50% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.07% others.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References

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