Ocotepeque
Ocotepeque | |
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Municipality | |
Ocotepeque | |
| Coordinates: 14°26′N 89°11′W / 14.433°N 89.183°W | |
| Country | Honduras |
| Department | Ocotepeque |
| Villages | 9 |
| Founded | 1530 |
| Area | |
• Municipality | 177 km2 (68 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 projection) | |
• Municipality | 26,391 |
| • Density | 149/km2 (386/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 16,575 |
Ocotepeque is a municipality in the Honduran department of Ocotepeque. The town of Nueva Ocotepeque is the municipal seat and the capital of the department. Ocotepeque means: Pine Mountain.
The department borders two countries, Guatemala and El Salvador and covers 1,630 km2. It is mostly mountainous, and has a population of 111,474 (2006). Its main economic activities are agricultural, including coffee, corn, cabbage, sugar cane, and onions. Due to its favourable location just a few kilometres away from the border with El Salvador at El Poy, as well as the border with Guatemala at Agua Caliente, Ocotepeque has the economic benefit of being a tri-country centre of business. It also attracts residents of smaller neighbouring towns, who come to Ocotepeque to purchase things or to study.