Colón Department (Honduras)
Colón | |
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Location of Colón in Honduras | |
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Capital | Trujillo |
population | 246,000 (2006 calculation) |
surface | 8875 km² |
Population density | 28 people / km² |
structure | 10 |
ISO 3166-2 | HN-CL |
Colón is one of the 18 departments in Honduras ( Central America ) and is located in the north of the country on the Caribbean coast .
The capital of the department is Trujillo . The population of Colón is largely made up of Garifuna . In addition to the beaches on the Caribbean coast, there are national parks in Colón that are worth seeing.
The department of Colón, in turn, is administratively divided into ten municipalities :
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Coordinates: 15 ° 42 ′ N , 85 ° 30 ′ W