Jano is a town and
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, ...
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 ...
, west 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 ...
, south of
Esquipulas del Norte
Esquipulas del Norte is a municipality in the north west of the Honduran department of Olancho, east of Guata and north of Jano.
Demographics
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Esquipulas del Norte municipality had a population of 10,138. ...
and north of
Manto may refer to:
People
* Mando (singer), Greek singer
* Manto Mavrogenous, Greek national heroine
* Saadat Hasan Manto, Urdu short story writer known by his pen name Manto
* Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (1940–2009), South African politician
* Manto ...
.
Villages
Jano municipality encompasses the following villages:
* Jano
* Comayaguela
* El Zapotillo
* La Pita
* La Victoria
* Las Labranzas
* Pacaya
* Pintora
Demographics
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Jano municipality had a population of 4,553. Of these, 90.97% were
Mestizo
(; ; fem. ) is a term used for racial classification to refer to a person of mixed Ethnic groups in Europe, European and Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous American ancestry. In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also r ...
, 8.15%
White
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, 0.51%
Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.37%
Indigenous
Indigenous may refer to:
*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
*Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band
*Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...
.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References
Municipalities of the Olancho Department
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