El Rosario
Municipality
El Rosario is located in Honduras
El Rosario
El Rosario
Coordinates (centroid of municipality): 14°55′N 86°42′W / 14.917°N 86.700°W / 14.917; -86.700
Country Honduras
DepartmentOlancho
Villages8
Area
 • Total143.11 km2 (55.26 sq mi)
Population
 (2015)
 • Total4,265
 • Density30/km2 (77/sq mi)

El Rosario (Spanish pronunciation: [el roˈsaɾjo]) is a town[1] (14°54′18″N 86°42′08″W / 14.90500°N 86.70222°W / 14.90500; -86.70222) and a municipality[2] in the west of the Honduran department of Olancho.

It is south-east of Yocón, north-east of Guayape and north-west of Salamá.

The town had a lumber mill, school, clinic, and a public library, La Biblioteca Regional de Dr. Dean J. Seibert.

In 2018, El Rosario experienced drought and failures of the corn and bean crops, as the August rains did not come. Residents have attributed the drought to climate change, and to logging which has depleted the pine forests surrounding the town.[3]

Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, El Rosario municipality had a population of 4,224. Of these, 99.48% were Mestizo, 0.31% Black or Afro-Honduran, 0.17% Indigenous and 0.05% White.[4]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ El Rosario (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  2. ↑ El Rosario (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  3. ↑ Gustin, Georgina (2019-07-08). "Ravaged by Drought, a Honduran Village Faces a Choice: Pray for Rain or Migrate". InsideClimate News. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
  4. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea
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