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Olancho Department

department of Honduras
Administrative Area Department Of Honduras Q867089

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
department of Honduras
Inception
June 28, 1825

Location

Country
Honduras[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 14.667°, -86.220°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Honduras[2]
Shares border with
Yoro Department, Colón Department, Gracias a Dios Department, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Jinotega Department, El Paraíso Department, Francisco Morazán Department[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Population and size

Area
+23905
Population
+520761
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 520,761 GeoNames 458,365 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Located in time zone
UTC−06:00
More facts +5
Capital
Juticalpa[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Juticalpa, Campamento, Catacamas, Concordia, Dulce Nombre de Culmí, El Rosario, Esquipulas del Norte, Gualaco, Guarizama, Guata, Guayape, Jano, La Unión, Mangulile, Manto, Salamá, San Esteban, San Francisco de Becerra, San Francisco de la Paz, Santa María del Real, Silca, Yocón, Patuca[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Described by source
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Honduras/Olancho
Language used
Miskito, Paya, Mayangna
🏷️ Also known as
en Olancho Department en Olancho Department, Honduras en Olancho Department, HN ar إدارة أولانشو cs Olancho da Olancho-departementet de Departamento Olancho el Ολάντσο es Departamento de Olancho es Olancho fa استان اولانچو fr Departement d'Olancho hi ओलांचो विभाग hu Olancho megye id Departemen Olancho it dipartimento di Olancho it Olancho ja オランチョ県 ko 올란초주 pt Departamento de Olancho
🔖 Identifiers · 17
VIAF cluster ID
145458756
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
4AKUj7
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
548727
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
HO15
Freebase ID
/m/02pn7b
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1126941
GeoNames ID
3604249
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1000715
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
olancho
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0046996
HASC
HN.OL
INaturalist place ID
10750
Show all 17 identifiers +5
ISO 3166-2 code
HN-OL
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4627317
Topic's main category
Category:Olancho Department
Who's on First ID
85671877
Yale LUX ID
place/58f381b6-4758-4636-b689-af3fe7ec18be

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 30
Coco River, Juticalpa, Catacamas, Campamento, Gualaco, Salamá, Concordia, Dulce Nombre de Culmí +22 more
Contains the administrative territorial entity 23
Juticalpa, Catacamas, Campamento, Gualaco, Salamá, Concordia, Dulce Nombre de Culmí, El Rosario +15 more
Shares border with 7
Jinotega Department, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Colón Department, El Paraíso Department, Francisco Morazán Department, Gracias a Dios Department, Yoro Department
← Shares border with 7
Jinotega Department, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Colón Department, El Paraíso Department, Francisco Morazán Department, Gracias a Dios Department, Yoro Department
Language used 2
Miskito, Paya
People born here 2
Francisco Gómez, Henry Orlando Ruiz Mora
People who died here 2
Juan de Grijalva, José María Reyes Mata
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Olancho Department, Category:Municipalities of the Olancho Department
← Indigenous to 2
Miskito, Paya
Capital 1
Juticalpa
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Olancho Department
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
Topic's main category 1
Category:Olancho Department
← Capital of 1
Juticalpa
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Olancho Department
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Honduras
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Summary

Olancho Department is a department of Honduras[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Olancho Department covers an area of {'amount': '+23905'}[26]. It has a population of {'amount': '+520761'}[27].

History and Context

June 28, 1825 marks the founding of Olancho Department[28].

Related Entities

Honduras Juan de Grijalva Universidad Nacional de Agricultura

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  27. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    VIAF cluster ID → 145458756
    "Created claim: VIAF cluster ID: 145458756"
  2. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 4AKUj7
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
  3. 27w ago · Shuaib-bot bot · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Shares border with → Yoro Department, Colón Department, Gracias a Dios Department +1
    Described by source → Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → Juticalpa, Campamento, Catacamas +1
    Inception → June 28, 1825
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