Olancho Department

Olancho is the largest of all the 18 departments into which is divided. The department covers a total surface area of 24,057 km2 and has an estimated 2015 population of 537,306 inhabitants.
  • Type: department of Honduras with 537,000 residents
  • Description: department of Honduras
  • Also known as: “Departamentu d’Olancho”, “Departement d’Olancho”, “departemento Olanĉo”, “Olančas”, “Olancho Department, HN”, “Olancho Department, Honduras”, “Olancho-departementet”, “Оланхо”, and “ఓలాంచో విభాగం”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa María del Real.

Town
is a municipality in the department of Olancho. is situated 7 km east of Olancho Department.

Olancho Department

Latitude
14.8333° or 14° 50′ north
Longitude
-86° or 86° west
Population
537,000
Elevation
910 metres (2,986 feet)
Open location code
766PR2M2+82
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Olancho Department” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኦላንቾ”
  • Arabic: “إدارة أولانشو”
  • Asturian: “Olancho”
  • Azerbaijani: “Olancho”
  • Basque: “Olancho”
  • Bengali: “ওলানকো বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Departamant Olancho”
  • Bulgarian: “Оланчо”
  • Catalan: “departament d’Olancho”
  • Catalan: “Departament d’Olancho”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Olancho”
  • Chinese: “奥兰乔省”
  • Chinese: “奧蘭喬省”
  • Czech: “Olancho”
  • Danish: “Olancho”
  • Dutch: “Olancho”
  • Esperanto: “departemento Olancho”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Olancho”
  • Esperanto: “Olancho”
  • Finnish: “Olancho”
  • French: “Département d’Olancho”
  • French: “Olancho”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Olancho”
  • Georgian: “ოლანჩოს დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Departamento Olancho”
  • Greek: “Ολάντσο”
  • Gujarati: “ઓલાંકો વિભાગ”
  • Hausa: “Olancho”
  • Hindi: “ओलांचो विभाग”
  • Hindi: “ओलान्को विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Olancho megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Olancho”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Olancho”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Olancho”
  • Japanese: “オランチョ県”
  • Javanese: “Olancho”
  • Kannada: “ಒಲಾಂಚೊ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Оланчо”
  • Kirghiz: “Оланчо”
  • Korean: “올란초주”
  • Ladino: “Olancho”
  • Latvian: “Olančo departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Olančo departamentas”
  • Low German: “Departamento Olancho”
  • Malay: “Olancho Department”
  • Marathi: “ओलांचो प्रांत”
  • Marathi: “ओलांचो विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Olancho Koān”
  • Northern Frisian: “Olancho”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Olancho department”
  • Oromo: “Olancho”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਲਾਂਚੋ”
  • Persian: “استان اولانچو”
  • Polish: “Olancho”
  • Portuguese: “Olancho”
  • Pushto: “اولانچو”
  • Quechua: “Olancho suyu”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Olancho”
  • Russian: “Оланчо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Departman Olancho”
  • Sinhala: “ඔලන්චෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, හොන්ඩුරාස්”
  • Sinhala: “ඕලන්චෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Somali: “Olancho”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Olancho”
  • Swahili: “Olancho”
  • Swedish: “Departamento de Olancho”
  • Swedish: “Olancho”
  • Tajik: “Олanche”
  • Tamil: “ஒலான்சோ துறை”
  • Tatar: “Olancho”
  • Telugu: “ఓలాంచో డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโอลันโช”
  • Turkish: “Olancho Department”
  • Turkish: “Olancho”
  • Ukrainian: “Оланчо”
  • Urdu: “اولانچو ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “اولانچو محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Olancho”
  • Vietnamese: “Olancho”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Olancho”
  • “Ōllālco”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Corazón de Jesús and El Destino.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Cerro Grande and Montaña El Cacao.

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