Ocotepeque Department
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Ocotepeque is one of the 18 departments (departamentos) into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.
Formed in 1906 from part of Copán Department.
The departmental capital is Nueva Ocotepeque.
The department covers a total surface area of 1,680 km² and, in 1991, had an estimated population of 77,000.
Municipalities
- Belén Gualcho
- Concepción
- Dolores Merendon
- Fraternidad
- La Encarnación
- La Labor
- Lucerna
- Mercedes
- Ocotepeque
- San Fernando
- San Francisco del Valle
- San Jorge
- San Marcos
- Santa Fé
- Sensenti
- Sinuapa
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| Atlántida | Choluteca | Colón | Comayagua | Copán | Cortés | El Paraíso | Francisco Morazán | Gracias a Dios | Intibucá | Islas de la Bahía | La Paz | Lempira | Ocotepeque | Olancho | Santa Bárbara | Valle | Yoro | |