Santa Rita, Yoro
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Santa Rita is a town and 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 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
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 ...
. The Humuya River passes through it. The town of Santa Rita has a population of 15,050 (2020 calculation). In 1684, it was a hamlet called Benque La Laguneta. It later became the village of Santa Rita El Negrito. The place was established as a town in 1959 with part of the municipality of El Negrito.


Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Santa Rita municipality had a population of 20,301. Of these, 89.73% were
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, 9.20%
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, 0.77% Black or Afro-Honduran, 0.17%
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 ...
and 0.12% others.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References

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