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El Paraíso Department

Departamento de El Paraíso
department
Location of El Paraíso in Honduras
Location of El Paraíso in Honduras
Country  Honduras
Municipalities 19
Villages 233
Founded 28 May 1869
Capital city Yuscarán
Government
 • Type Departmental
Area
 • Total 7,383 km2 (2,851 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)
 • Total 502,944
 • Density 68.122/km2 (176.435/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-6 (CDT)
Postal code
13101, 13201
ISO 3166 code HN-EP
HDI (2017) 0.568
medium · 13th
Statistics derived from Consult INE online database: Population and Housing Census 2013

El Paraíso (Spanish pronunciation: [el paɾaˈiso]) is one of the 18 departments (departamentos) into which Honduras is divided.

The territory of El Paraíso was initially part of the departments of Tegucigalpa (renamed Francisco Morazán in 1943) and Olancho after Central America gained its independence in 1825. The department of El Paraíso was created with municipalities taken from the departments of Tegucigalpa and Olancho on 28 May 1869 by congressional decree in the third political division of Honduras, during the presidential term of José María Medina. Initially El Paraíso included the jurisdictions of Danlí, Yuscarán and Texiguat, along with the town of Guinope. On December 28, 1878, Texiguat was moved to the department of Tegucigalpa, but subsequently moved back into El Paraíso on October 28, 1886.

The departmental capital is Yuscarán. El Paraíso is bordered to the north by the department of Olancho, to the south by the department of de Choluteca, to the east by the Republic of Nicaragua, and to the west by the department of Francisco Morazán.

El Paraíso department covers a total surface area of 7489 km² and, in 2015, had an estimated population of 458,742.

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