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Colón Department

department of Honduras
Administrative Area Department Of Honduras Q867117

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
department of Honduras
Inception
December 19, 1881[19]

Location

Country
Honduras[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 15.918°, -85.953°[20]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Honduras[2]
Shares border with
Atlántida Department, Gracias a Dios Department, Olancho Department, Yoro Department[5][6][7][8]

Population and size

Area
+8249
Population
+309926[21]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 309,926 GeoNames 319,786 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Located in time zone
UTC−06:00[18]
More facts +5
Capital
Trujillo[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Trujillo, Balfate, Iriona, Limón, Sabá, Santa Rosa de Aguán, Sonaguera, Tocoa, Bonito Oriental[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Honduras/Colón
Language used
Miskito, Paya, Garifuna, Mayangna
Replaces
La Mosquitia department[22]
🏷️ Also known as
en Colón en Colón Department en El Colón de Cristóbal ar إدارة كولون de Departamento Colón el Κολόν es Colón es Departamento de Colón es El Colón de Cristóbal fa استان کولون fr Departement de Colon hi कोलोन विभाग hu Colón megye id Departemen Colón it dipartimento di Colón ja コロン県 ko 콜론주 ms Colon Department pt Departamento de Colón ro Colon
🔖 Identifiers · 15
VIAF cluster ID
153598768
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
HO03
Freebase ID
/m/02pmgf
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1117739
GeoNames ID
3613358
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1000573
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
colon-6
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0018854
HASC
HN.CL
INaturalist place ID
10722
ISO 3166-2 code
HN-CL
MusicBrainz area ID
678650df-e006-487a-8ec8-4c07512f0cad
Show all 15 identifiers +3
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4627315
Topic's main category
Category:Colón Department (Honduras)
Who's on First ID
85671857

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 12
Trujillo, Tocoa, Sonaguera, Santa Rosa de Aguán, Balfate, Limón, Sabá, Santa Fe +4 more
Contains the administrative territorial entity 9
Trujillo, Tocoa, Sonaguera, Santa Rosa de Aguán, Balfate, Limón, Sabá, Bonito Oriental +1 more
Shares border with 4
Atlántida Department, Olancho Department, Gracias a Dios Department, Yoro Department
← Shares border with 4
Atlántida Department, Olancho Department, Gracias a Dios Department, Yoro Department
Language used 3
Garifuna, Miskito, Paya
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Municipalities of the Colón Department (Honduras), Category:People from Colón Department (Honduras)
← Indigenous to 2
Miskito, Paya
Capital 1
Trujillo
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Colón Department (Honduras)
Country 1
Honduras
Instance of 1
department of Honduras
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Honduras
Located in time zone 1
UTC−06:00
People born here 1
Saúl Martínez
Topic's main category 1
Category:Colón Department (Honduras)
← Capital of 1
Trujillo
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Colón Department (Honduras)
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Honduras
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Summary

Colón Department is a department of Honduras[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Colón Department covers an area of {'amount': '+8249'}[23].

Related Entities

Honduras Ilanga Saúl Martínez Trujillo

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → —
    Instance of → department of Honduras
    Topic's main category → Category:Colón Department (Honduras)
    Area → 8,249
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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