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.
Wikipedia
  • Type: department of Honduras with 1,620,000 residents
  • Description: department of Honduras
  • Also known as: “Departamento de Cortes”, “departemento Kortumo”, “کورتیس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”, and “కోర్టెస్ విభాగం”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in , . is situated 6 km north of Cortés Department.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Pedro Sula and La Lima.

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is in northern .

Town
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is a city, with a population of 80,740, and… is situated 8 km east of Cortés Department.

Cortés Department

Latitude
15.4167° or 15° 25′ north
Longitude
-88° or 88° west
Population
1,620,000
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
Open location code
767JC282+M2
Geo­Names ID
3613140
Wiki­data ID
Q767244
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Cortés Department” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኮርተስ”
  • Arabic: “إدارة كورتيس”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cortes”
  • Basque: “Cortés”
  • Belarusian: “Картэс”
  • Bengali: “কর্টেস বিভাগ”
  • Breton: “Departamant Cortés”
  • Bulgarian: “Кортес”
  • Catalan: “Cortés”
  • Catalan: “departament de Cortés”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Cortés”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Cortés”
  • 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”
  • Finnish: “Cortés”
  • French: “Cortés”
  • French: “Département de Cortés”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Cortés”
  • Georgian: “კორტესის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Cortés”
  • German: “Departamento Cortés”
  • Greek: “Κορτές”
  • Gujarati: “કોર્ટિસ વિભાગ”
  • Hausa: “Cortes”
  • Hebrew: “קורטס (מחוז)”
  • Hebrew: “קורטס”
  • Hindi: “कोर्टेज विभाग”
  • Hindi: “कोर्तेस विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Cortés megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Cortés”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Cortés”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Cortés”
  • Japanese: “コルテス県”
  • Javanese: “Cortes”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಟೆಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Кортес”
  • Kirghiz: “Кортес”
  • Korean: “코르테스주”
  • Ladino: “Cortés”
  • Latvian: “Kortesa departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Korteso departamentas”
  • Low German: “Departamento Cortés”
  • Malay: “Cortes Department”
  • Marathi: “कोर्तेस प्रांत”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cortés Koān”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cortés”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cortes”
  • Oromo: “Cortes”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਰਟੇਸ”
  • Persian: “استان کورتس”
  • Polish: “Cortés”
  • Portuguese: “Cortés”
  • Pushto: “کورتس”
  • 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”
  • Somali: “Cortes”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Cortés”
  • Swahili: “Cortes”
  • Swedish: “Cortés”
  • Swedish: “Departamento de Cortés”
  • Tajik: “Кортес”
  • Tamil: “கார்ட்ஸ் டெபார்ட்மென்ட”
  • Tatar: “Cortes”
  • Telugu: “కోర్టెస్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดกอร์เตส”
  • Turkish: “Cortés Departmanı”
  • Turkish: “Cortés”
  • Ukrainian: “Кортес”
  • Urdu: “کورتیس محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Cortes”
  • Vietnamese: “Cortés”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cortés”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کورٹے”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Búfalo and El Zapote.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Montaña de Jaspa and Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport.

Honduras: Must-Visit Destinations

Worth a closer look: Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.

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