Morazán () is a town, with a population of 19,880 (2020 calculation), and a

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in the Honduran

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Yoro Yoro, with a population of 25,560 (2020 calculation), is the capital city of the Yoro Department of Honduras and the municipal seat of Yoro Municipality. It is notable for a local event known as Lluvia de Peces, where it is claimed that strong ...

. This political division of 47,435 people is in the north, located between the city of

and the municipality of

El Negrito El Negrito () is a town, with a population of 12,790 (2020 calculation), and a municipality in the department of Yoro, Honduras. Villages El Negrito has a total of 29 villages: * El Negrito * Battán * Aldea Paujiles Norte * Campo Perdeíz * ...

, north of the Nico Pijol

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. The town scores low on development indices within Honduras. Like many towns of the

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Morazan was laid out in a grid, with a central plaza.

History

It is known that in ancient times, people in the current header lived in a place that is far from it three kilometers away and called Toledo, soon the inhabitants of this moved to where the population is and gave it the name Cataguana and contained in the 1801 population count, as part of the Prefectures of Yoro and in the 1887 census and appears as municipio.

Municipality

The municipality is bordered on the north by the town of Tela, on the south by the city of Victoria, east to the town of Yoro and west by the municipality of El Negrito. The municipality has the following 25 villages: Morazán, Agua Blanca, Buena Vista, Candelaria, Charity, Cuyamapa, Chililenga, El Porvenir Reef, Teabag, La Cruz, La Estancia, Lempira, Los Prietos or San Martin, Mango Seco, Mojimán, Nombre de Dios, New Hope, New Florida, Ocote Paulino, Paya, Portillo Gonzalez Rompidos Guayma or lilies, or Palmar San Antonio, San Juan and San Rafael Camalote of Aguacatales. and to forge and the largest lagoon

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Morazán municipality had a population of 40,402. Of these, 93.77% were

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, 3.70%

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(3.36%

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), 2.01%

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, 0.26% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.26% others.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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Education

Instituto Polivalente Francisco Morazán

Churches

*Católico Francisco Javier *Iglesia Catolica Virgen de los Desamparados *Iglesia Evangelica *Iglesia del Nazareno

References

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