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Patuca
Municipality
Patuca is located in Honduras
Patuca
Patuca
Location in Honduras
Country  Honduras
Department Olancho
Area
 • Total 635.10 km2 (245.21 sq mi)
Population
 (2015)
 • Total 27,183
 • Density 42.8011/km2 (110.8544/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.

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.

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