Intibucá Department
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| name = Intibucá Department
| native_name = Departamento de Intibucá
| native_name_lang = es
| settlement_type = department
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| subdivision_name3 = 17
| subdivision_type4 = Villages
| subdivision_name4 = 126
| subdivision_type1 = Capital
| subdivision_name1 = La Esperanza
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|subdivision_name2=Intibucá
| established_title = Founded
| established_date = 16 April 1883
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| leader_party = LibRe
| leader_title = Governor
| leader_name = Jose Alberto Vasquez (2022-2026)
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| area_rank = 14th
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| population_total = 241568
| population_rank = 13th
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| demographics1_title1 = Total
| demographics1_info1 = $500 million (2023){{cite web|url=https://tellusant.com/repo/tb/tellubase_factsheet_hnd.pdf|title=TelluBase—Honduras Fact Sheet (Tellusant Public Service Series)| access-date = 2024-01-11}}
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| demographics1_info2 = $1,800 (2023)
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| demographics2_info2 = $1.1 billion (2023)
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| demographics2_info3 = $3,700 (2023)
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| postal_code = 14000, 14101, 14201
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| iso_code = HN-IN
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| footnotes = Statistics derived from Consult INE online database: Population and Housing Census 2013{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.gob.hn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=220 |title=Consulta Base de datos INE en línea: Censo de Población y Vivienda 2013 |trans-title=Consult INE online database: Population and Housing Census 2013 |language=es |date=1 August 2018 |website=Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) |publisher=El Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) |access-date=2018-09-13}}
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Intibucá ({{IPA|es|in.ti.βuˈka}}) is one of the 18 departments in the Republic of Honduras. Intibucá covers a total surface area of {{convert|1186.1|mi2|km2}}. Its capital is the city of La Esperanza, in the municipality of La Esperanza.{{cite web | url=http://www.amhon.hn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107&Itemid=427 | title=Alcaldes y Alcaldesas | access-date=2013-10-14 | author=Asociación de Municipios de Honduras | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816015437/http://amhon.hn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107&Itemid=427 | archive-date=2013-08-16 | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=http://www.muni.bvs.hn/pdf/Alcades.pdf | title=Alcades de Honduras | access-date=2013-10-14 | author=BVS Nacionales | archive-date=2014-06-30 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630092431/http://www.muni.bvs.hn/pdf/Alcades.pdf | url-status=dead }}{{cite book |author1=Alfred Keane Moe |author2=John Hampden Porter | title=Honduras: Geographical sketch, natural resources, laws, economic conditions, actual development, prospects of future growth |url=https://archive.org/details/hondurasgeograp02portgoog | publisher=Internal Bureau of the American Republics, US Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. | year=1904| pages=44–46}}
History
The department of Intibucá was created on April 16, 1883 upon recommendation of the Governor of the department of Gracias (now called Lempira), Jose Maria Cacho in 1869. He advised that the vast size of Gracias made it difficult to govern and that it would be desirable to divide it into more than one department.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}
On March 7, 1883 Decree No. 10 was issued, which called for the creation of a new department to be named Intibucá in April of that year. The town of La Esperanza was designated to be the capital of the new department. To create the new department, territory from both the departments of Gracias and La Paz were reassigned. {{citation needed|date=July 2016}}
Geography
The department of Intibucá is situated between latitudes 13°51'E and 14°42'N and longitudes 87°46'W and 88°42'W. It is bounded on the north by the departments of Comayagua, Lempira, and Santa Bárbara, on the east by the departments of Comayagua and La Paz, on the west by the department of Lempira, and on the south by the Republic of El Salvador. Intibucá is the most mountainous district of Honduras. The capital of La Esperanza lies at an elevation of {{convert|4950|ft|m}} above sea level. The table-land and valleys are higher than in any other part of the country, and the ranges of the Cordilleras rise to an altitude approaching {{convert|10000|ft|m}} feet above sea level.
The valley of Otoro is 30 km long by 8 km wide.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}
The Opalaca mountains have several ridges and crosses over into the department of La Paz. Sierra de Montecillos is a natural border with the department of Comayagua, and contains the mountains Opatoro, Concepción, El Picacho, Goascotoro, El Granadino among others.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}
= Rivers =
Rivers of La Esperanza include the San Juan River and the Intibucá River, which passes through La Esperanza. Otoro River is a tributary of the Ulua River, and carries water to the Otoro valley. The Black River, known by the name of Guarajambala River, serves as a dividing line with the department of Lempira. Torola River and Gualcarque River flow into the Lempa river.
Population
According to the 1895 census, Intibucá had a population of 18,957 people at that time.{{cite book |author= |title=Breve noticia del empadronamiento general de casas y habitantes de la República de Honduras practicado el 18 de diciembre de 1910. |trans-title=Brief news of the general enumeration of houses and inhabitants of the Republic of Honduras practiced on December 18, 1910. |language=es |location=Tegucigalpa, Honduras |publisher=Tipografía Nactional |pages=6–7 |date=2011 |quote=Pages 6-7 summarize the development of the population of Honduras from 1791 through 1910 according to the registrations, estimates, censuses and counts between the two years. Numbers of inhabitants are given for 1791, 1801, 1826, 1850, 1881, 1887, 1895, 1901, 1905, and 1910.}} In 2015, it had grown to 241,568 people, divided among 17 municipalities and 126 villages (aldeas).
Forest resources
The mountains and slopes are well supplied with pine and Oak forests, and the valleys thrive with fertile, well-watered soil, covered with vegetation characteristic of the temperate rather than tropical zone.{{cite book |author1=Harcourt, C. |author2=J. Sayer | title=The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: The Americas | publisher=Simon & Schuster, New York | year=1996 |isbn=978-0133408867}}{{cite web| url=http://worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/nt0303 | title=Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests. Central America: Southern Mexico, Southern Guatemala, into Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua| access-date = 2013-10-15|author = George Powell, Sue Palminteri, Claudia Locklin, and Jan Schipper (WWF)}}
Municipalities
Notable residents
- General Vicente Tosta Carrasco, President of the country (1924-1925)
- Doctor Vicente Mejía Colindres, Constitutional presidente of the Republic (1929-1933)
- General {{Interlanguage link multi|Gregorio Ferrera|es}}, military officer, politician, and Honduran leader
- Rafael Manzanares Aguilar, Honduran folklorist, author and musical composer; founder and first director of the National Office of Folklore of Honduras (Oficina del Folklore Nacional de Honduras); founder and first director and choreographer of the Cuadro de Danzas Folklóricas de Honduras.
- Rafael Pineda Ponce, politician and educator, born in San Miguelito.
- Natanael del Cid Menedez, Politician, Rancher, Constitutionalist.
References
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External links
- {{cite web | url = http://www.laesperanzaintibuca.com | title = La Esperanza Intibuca | access-date = 2014-02-02 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140208014343/http://www.laesperanzaintibuca.com/ | archive-date = 2014-02-08 | url-status = usurped }}
- {{cite web| url = http://www.orolenca.org | title = Ballet Folklórico Oro Lenca | access-date = 2016-05-05}}
- {{cite web|title=Geo Postal Codes database (Intibucá)|url=http://www.mapanet.eu/EN/Postal_Codes/?c=HN&n=2&r0=00&r1=10&r2=00&r3=00&r4=00&l=0|website=Mapanet|publisher=Divex Turismo, S.L.|location=Madrid, España|access-date=11 January 2018}}
- {{cite web|title=Cuadro de Códigos de Departamentos y Municipios de Honduras|trans-title=Table of Honduran Department and Municipality Codes|language=es|url=http://www.rnp.hn/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Cuadro-de-C%C3%83%C2%B3digos-de-Departamento-y-Municipios.pdf|website=Registro Nacional de las Personas Honduras (RPN)|location=Tegucigalpa, Honduras|format=PDF|access-date=11 January 2018}}
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