Cortés Depairtment

Cortés is ane o the 18 depairtments intae which the Central American naition o Honduras is dividit. The depairtment covers a tot surface aurie o 3,954 km² an, in 2005, haed a estimatit population o 1,365,497 fowk, makkin it the maist populous depairtment in Honduras. The Merendón Muntains rise in wastren Cortés, but the depairtment is maistly a tropical lawland, the Sula Valley, crossed bi the Ulúa an Chamelecon rivers.

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Depairtment
Cortés
Coordinates: 15°30′10″N 88°0′49″W
Kintra	Honduras
Caipital	San Pedro Sula
Municipalities	12
Govrenment
• Teep	Depairtmental
• Gobernador Político	Víctor Galdámez
Area
• Total	3954 km2 (1,527 sq mi)
Highest elevation	2242 m (7,356 ft)
Lowest elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Population  (Census 2001)
• Total	1,202,510
• Ethnicities	Ladino Garifuna
• Releegions	Catholicism Evangelicalism
Time zone	-6

It wis creatit in 1893 frae pairts o the depairtments o Santa Bárbara an Yoro. The depairtmental caipital is San Pedro Sula. Main ceeties include Choloma, La Lima, Villanueva, an the sea ports o Puerto Cortés an Omoa an aw. The Atlantic coast o the Depairtment o Cortés is kent for its mony excellent beaches.

Cortés is the economic hertland o Honduras, as the Sula Valley is the kintra's main agricultural an industrial region. US bananae companies arrivit in the aurie in the late 19t hunderyear, an established vast plantations, as well as infrastructur tae ship the fruit tae the Unitit States. San Pedro Sula attractit substantial nummers o European, Central American, an Palestinian an Lebanese immigrants. Industry flourishes in the depairtment, an Cortés the day hosts maist o the kintra's assembly plants, kent as maquilas.

Municipalities

1. Choloma
2. La Lima
3. Omoa
4. Pimienta
5. Potrerillos
6. Puerto Cortés
7. San Antonio de Cortés
8. San Francisco de Yojoa
9. San Manuel
10. San Pedro Sula
11. Santa Cruz de Yojoa
12. Villanueva