Cabañas is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality ...
in the
Honduran department of
La Paz
La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the third-most populous city in Bo ...
.
Demographics
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, La Paz municipality had a population of 3,253. Of these, 85.93% were
Indigenous (85.89%
Lenca
The Lenca or Lepawiran "people of the jaguar" are from present day southwest Honduras and eastern El Salvador in Central America. They once spoke many Dialects such as Chilanga, Putun, Kotik etc. Although there were different dialects, they un ...
), 12.40%
Mestizo
(; ; fem. ) is a term used for racial classification to refer to a person of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry. In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also refer to people who are culturally European even though thei ...
, 0.86%
Black or Afro-Honduran, 0.56%
White
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and 0.25% others.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References
Municipalities of the La Paz Department (Honduras)
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