Santa Fe 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

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&nb ...

. As of 2015, its population was of 5,006.

History

The village was founded in 1860 by people from the nearby town (4.5 km east) of Concepción. It was originally named ''El Tablón del Guayabo'' (The Board of Guayabo), due to the abundance of trees of this fruit, then changed its name to the current one. In 1887 population statistics Santa Fe was ranked as one of the municipalities forming the Ocotepeque Department.

Geography

Located 11 km southeast of the border with

Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...

(at Agua Caliente), and 19 km north of the one with

El Salvador El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...

(at Citalá), Santa Fe is a hilltown close to the banks of

Lempa River The Lempa River () is a river in Central America. It is a transboundary river shared by El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Geography Its sources are located in between the Sierra Madre and the Sierra del Merendón mountain ranges in southern ...

. It is 12 km from

, the department capital, and 19 from the Guatemalan town of

Esquipulas Esquipulas (Nahuatl: Isquitzuchil, "place where flowers abound"), officially Municipality of Esquipulas, whose original name was Yzquipulas, is a town, with a population of 18,667 (2018 census), and a municipality located in the department of Chiq ...

. The municipality is divided into 8 parts: the town of Santa Fe and 7 other villages (''Aldeas''). The villages are Agua Caliente, El Mojanal, La Quesera, Los Encinos, Piedras Bonitas, Piñuelas and Sulnete.

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Santa Fe municipality had a population of 4,851. Of these, 97.40% were

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, 0.80%

Indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology) In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often populari ...

, 0.33% Black or Afro-Honduran, 0.16%

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and 1.30% others.Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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References

External links

{{Ocotepeque Department Municipalities of the Ocotepeque Department