Patuca

Patuca
Municipality
Patuca
Coordinates: 14°19′N 85°58′W
Country	Honduras
Department	Olancho
Government
• Mayor	Juan Carlos Colindres Rosales
Area
• Total	635.10 km^2 (245.21 sq mi)
Population  (2015)
• Total	27,183
• Density	43/km^2 (110/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-6

Patuca is a municipality in the south of the Honduran department of Olancho, east of Juticalpa and south of Catacamas.

It contains the Patuca River, which is the second largest in Central America.[1]

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Patuca municipality had a population of 26,668. Of these, 98.27% were Mestizo, 0.92% White, 0.63% Indigenous, 0.12% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.06% others.[2]

References

1. "Patuca River Campaign". Archived from the original on 2006-09-18. Retrieved 2005-10-30. Patuca River Campaign
2. Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea