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Cucuyagua

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Cucuyagua
Municipality of Honduras
Coordinates: 14°39'N, 88°52'W
CapitalCucuyagua
EntityMunicipality
 • CountryPlantilla:Bandera icon - country
 • DepartmentCopán
Surface 
 • Whole133,2 km ²
 Average elevation789 msnm
Population (2001 [1]) 
 • Whole11.593 hab.
 • Thickness87 hab/km ²
Time zone-6 (UTC)
1Plantilla:Mapa of location

Cucuyagua is a municipality in the department of Copán, in Honduras.

Cocollagua turned by us into Cucuyagua, is the name of Cocolhuacan that it means "Place that has business or complaints". [2]

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Location

The municipality is adjacent to the north to the municipality of Santa Rosa of Copán, on the south to the municipality of Saint Peter, to the east to the municipalities of The Flowers and Talgua and on the west to the municipality of The Union. [3] Is placed to the east of the Vale of its name and to the margin of the Rio Alax or Cucuyagua

Historical information

One believes that it was in 1750; in the inventory of 1791 it appears like people of the Parish of Sensenti and in the Division of 1889 it was already appearing as District. [2]

Villages

The municipal district has the following villages: [4]

References

  1. http://ccp.ucr.ac.cr/bvp/censos/honduras/2001/trifolio_dp.pdf I Register Honduras 2001
  2. to b Fiallos, Carmen. 1989. "The Municipalities of Honduras".
  3. http://www.ordenamientoterritorial.hn/images/creacion_municipios/copan/cucuyagua.pdf Information of territorial organization of Honduras
  4. National Institute of Statistics, Honduras. (I register 2001)