# Patuca

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Municipality in Olancho, Honduras

Patuca Municipality Patuca Coordinates: 14°19′N 85°58′W / 14.317°N 85.967°W / 14.317; -85.967 Country Honduras Department Olancho Government • Mayor Juan Carlos Colindres Rosales Area • Total 635.10 km2 (245.21 sq mi) Population (2015) • Total 27,183 • Density 42.801/km2 (110.85/sq mi) Time zone UTC-6

**Patuca** is a [municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Honduras) in the south of the [Honduran](/source/Honduras) [department](/source/Departments_of_Honduras) of [Olancho](/source/Olancho_department), east of [Juticalpa](/source/Juticalpa%2C_Olancho) and south of [Catacamas](/source/Catacamas).

It contains the [Patuca River](/source/Patuca_River), which is the second largest in [Central America](/source/Central_America).[1]

## Demographics

At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Patuca municipality had a population of 26,668. Of these, 98.27% were [Mestizo](/source/Mestizo), 0.92% [White](/source/White_Latin_Americans), 0.63% [Indigenous](/source/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas), 0.12% [Black or Afro-Honduran](/source/Afro-Hondurans) and 0.06% others.[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Patuca River Campaign"](https://web.archive.org/web/20060918062212/http://alexagui.bol.ucla.edu/patuca/). Archived from [the original](http://alexagui.bol.ucla.edu/patuca/) on 2006-09-18. Retrieved 2005-10-30. Patuca River Campaign

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea](https://www.ine.gob.hn/V3/baseine/)

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