Yoro, with a population of 25,560 (2020 calculation), is the capital city of the

Yoro Department Yoro is one of the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided. The department contains rich agricultural lands, concentrated mainly on the valley of the Aguan River and the Sula Valley, on opposite ends. The departmental capital is Yoro. The de ...

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 storms make fish fall from the sky.

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Yoro municipality had a population of 86,665. Of these, 86.52% were Mestizo, 10.65%

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(10.05%

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, 0.41%

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), 1.98%

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, 0.80% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.05% others.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References

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