Mercedes () is a
municipality in 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
Ocotepeque
Ocotepeque is a municipality in the Honduran department of Ocotepeque. The town of Nueva Ocotepeque is the municipal seat and the capital of the department.
The department borders two countries, Guatemala and El Salvador and covers 1,630 ...
.
Demographics
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Mercedes municipality had a population of 7,226. Of these, 99.32% 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 ...
, 0.30%
Indigenous, 0.30%
Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.06%
White.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References
Municipalities of the Ocotepeque Department
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