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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Departments of Honduras
		Omoa is a town in the Cortés department of Honduras, on the Caribbean Sea coast, to the west of Puerto Cortés.
		The largest department by surface area is Olancho department and by population is Francisco Morazán department and the smallest by both surface area and population is the Islas de la Bahía department.
		Puerto Lempira is the capital of the Gracias a Dios department of Honduras.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Departments-of-Honduras (1262 words)

	El Rincón, apuntes liberales
		Although the Energy Department was required to assess the likely environmental consequences of the proposed sale, it didn't.
		Gore's initiative to streamline the bureaucracy and "reinvent government." The Energy Department sold the property to Occidental for $3.65 billion in cash through a competitive bidding process that drew 22 offers.
		Department officials said Occidental's price was twice the next-highest bid and double what the government had estimated.
	elrincon.redliberal.com (3248 words)

	Honduras Departments
		Aside from that, the departments are further subdivided into 298 municipalities (282 in 1980, 291 in 1995).
		Choluteca corresponded roughly to modern Choluteca and Valle; Comayagua, to Comayagua and La Paz; Gracias, to Copán, Intibucá, Lempira, and Ocotepeque; Olancho, to Olancho; Santa Bárbara, to Cortés and Santa Bárbara; Tegucigalpa, to El Paraíso and Francisco Morazán; and Yoro, to Atlántida, Colón, Gracias a Dios, Islas de la Bahía, and Yoro.
		The capitals had the same names as their departments, except that Juticalpa was the capital of Olancho.
	www.statoids.com /uhn.html (610 words)

	CIPEC - Population Growth and Forest Cover Change in the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras, by David Dodds
		Among the ethnic groups inhabiting Gracias a Dios, the largest is the Miskito (79%), followed by the ladino or mestizo/Hispanic population from the interior (16%), the Garífuna (3%), the Tawahka Sumu (2%), and the Pech or Paya (<1%) (1988 national census, DGEC 1990a:167).
		The population of Gracias a Dios, tripled over the 27 year period covered by national censuses: from 10,905 in 1961 to 33,684 in 1988 (national census data; DGEC 1980, 1990b).
		Though Gracias a Dios is the least populated department of Honduras, rates of in-migration are relatively low based on available census data.
	www.cipec.org /research/demography/dodds_ppr.html (5706 words)

	Honduras - Population Density (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The five mountainous departments bordering El Salvador (Ocotepeque, Lempira, Intibucá, La Paz, and Valle) have a much higher population density than the four sparsely populated departments in the east (Colón, Olancho, Gracias a Dios, and El Paraíso).
		The country's second-largest and least-populated department, Gracias a Dios, had a population density of only 2.5 inhabitants per square kilometer in 1989.
		In 1989 the department of Cortés, on the west bank of the Río Ulúa, had a population density of 188 inhabitants per square kilometer.
	countrystudies.us /honduras/41.htm (232 words)

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		In the Department of Cortes (Puerto Cortes and Omoa), the sample is almost entirely among the mestizo population and HIV/AIDS as health problem comes first according to the men, while the women think it has increased in absolute terms, but still comes in third place.
		In this department the schooling level of the people surveyed is a minimum of 7-9 years and more likely more than 12 years of schooling.
		The influence area of the North Coast is located between the latitude 150 15' and 16° 50' north and longitude 830 15' and 880 15' east, between the Cape of Gracias a Dios at the east side and the border between the Republic of Honduras and Guatemala at the west side.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2001/04/07/000094946_01032206001888/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt (19320 words)

	Lets Go Honduras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Capital of the department of Lempira, in Western Honduras, Gracias is accessible from Copan via the Western Highway towards Santa Rosa de Copan.
		In the neighborhood of Gracias are several small communities with some of the largest concentration of Native Indian population in Honduras.
		The hotel infrastructure in Gracias has improved considerably in the last two or three years and there are proyects to build even more hotels.
	www.letsgohonduras.com /gracias_eng.html (2122 words)

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