Cortés Department
Cortés is one of the 18 departments of Honduras. The department covers an area of 3,954 km2 and, in 2015, had an estimated population of 1,612,762, making it the most populous in Honduras.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: department of Honduras with 1,620,000 residents
- Description: department of Honduras
- Also known as: “Cortés” and “Departamento de Cortes”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano.
Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano
Stadium
Photo: Ipaz0185, Public domain.
Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano is a multi-purpose stadium in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. It is currently used mostly for football matches and also has facilities for athletics. It has a capacity of 37,325. Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano is situated 6 km north of Cortés Department.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Pedro Sula and La Lima.
San Pedro Sula
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Pedro Sula is in northern Honduras. It is the second largest city in Honduras after the capital Tegucigalpa. The focus of industry in Honduras, it is mostly a modern city It is a good base for entering the country and visiting other parts, and offers modern amenities.
La Lima
Town
Photo: Garcia.dennis, CC BY 3.0.
La Lima is a city, with a population of 80,740, and a municipality in the Honduran department of Cortés. It is home to the corporate headquarters of the Tela Railroad Company, a subsidiary of Chiquita Brand. La Lima is situated 8 km east of Cortés Department.
Chamelecón
Suburb
Chamelecón is a suburb of San Pedro Sula in Honduras. Chamelecón is ten minutes' drive south from San Pedro Sula. It has an approximate population of 53,400.
Cortés Department
- Location: Honduras, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Cortés Department” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إدارة كورتيس”
- Basque: “Cortés”
- Belarusian: “Картэс”
- Bengali: “কর্টেস বিভাগ”
- Breton: “Departamant Cortés”
- Bulgarian: “Кортес”
- Catalan: “departament de Cortés”
- Catalan: “Departament de Cortés”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de Cortés”
- Chinese: “Cortés Koān”
- Chinese: “科尔特斯省”
- Chinese: “科爾特斯省”
- Czech: “Cortés”
- Danish: “Cortés Department”
- Dutch: “Cortés”
- Esperanto: “Cortés”
- Esperanto: “departemento Cortés”
- Esperanto: “Departemento Cortés”
- Esperanto: “departemento Kortumo”
- Finnish: “Cortés”
- French: “Cortés”
- French: “Département de Cortés”
- Galician: “Cortés”
- Galician: “Departamento de Cortés”
- Georgian: “კორტესის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Cortés”
- German: “Departamento Cortés”
- Greek: “Κορτές”
- Gujarati: “કોર્ટિસ વિભાગ”
- Hebrew: “קורטס (מחוז)”
- Hebrew: “קורטס”
- Hindi: “कोर्टेज विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Cortés megye”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Cortés”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Cortés”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Cortés”
- Japanese: “コルテス県”
- Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಟೆಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Korean: “코르테스주”
- Ladino: “Cortés”
- Latvian: “Kortesa departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Korteso departamentas”
- Low German: “Departamento Cortés”
- Malay: “Cortes Department”
- Marathi: “कोर्तेस प्रांत”
- Marathi: “कोर्तेस विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cortés Koān”
- Northern Frisian: “Cortés (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Cortés”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cortes”
- Persian: “استان کورتس”
- Polish: “Cortés”
- Portuguese: “Cortés”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Cortés”
- Quechua: “Cortés (Unduras) suyu”
- Quechua: “Cortés suyu”
- Quechua: “Cortés”
- Romanian: “Cortés”
- Romanian: “Departamentul Cortés”
- Russian: “Кортес”
- Scots: “Cortés Depairtment”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Departman Cortés”
- Sinhala: “කොටේස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, හොන්ඩුරාස්”
- Sinhala: “කොටේස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Slovak: “Cortés”
- Spanish: “Cortés”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Cortés”
- Swedish: “Cortés”
- Swedish: “Departamento de Cortés”
- Tamil: “கார்ட்ஸ் டெபார்ட்மென்ட”
- Telugu: “కోర్టెస్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “కోర్టెస్ విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดกอร์เตส”
- Turkish: “Cortés Departmanı”
- Turkish: “Cortés”
- Ukrainian: “Кортес”
- Urdu: “کورتیس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “کورتیس محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Cortés”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cortés”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کورٹے”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Búfalo and Chotepe.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Montaña de Jaspa and Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport.
Honduras: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, Roatán, and La Ceiba.
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