# Yoro

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'''Yoro''', with a population of 101,849 (2022 calculation),<ref>[https://www.citypopulation.de/en/honduras/cities/ Citypopulation.de] Population of cities in Honduras</ref> is the capital city of the [Yoro Department](/source/Yoro_Department) of [Honduras](/source/Honduras) and the municipal seat of Yoro Municipality. It is notable for a local event known as [Lluvia de Peces](/source/Lluvia_de_Peces), where it is claimed that strong storms make fish fall from<ref>{{Cite book|last=de|first=Chavagnac, X.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/771135438|title=Histoire des manufactures françaises de porcelaine|date=1906|oclc=771135438}}</ref> the sky.<ref>{{cite web|last=Campos |first=Orsy |title=Un pueblo en fiesta |url=http://www.elsalvador.com/hablemos/2004/110704/110704-5.htm |publisher=Revista Hablemos |access-date=19 September 2012 |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207145617/http://www.elsalvador.com/hablemos/2004/110704/110704-5.htm |archive-date=February 7, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Kirk Semple |title=Every Year, the Sky ‘Rains Fish.’ Explanations Vary. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/world/americas/honduras-rain-fish-yoro.html |newspaper=[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times) |date= July 16, 2017 }}</ref>

==Demographics==
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Yoro municipality had a population of 86,665. Of these, 86.52% were [Mestizo](/source/Mestizo), 10.65% [Indigenous](/source/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas) (10.05% [Tolupan](/source/Tolupan), 0.41% [Lenca](/source/Lenca)), 1.98% [White](/source/White_Latin_Americans), 0.80% [Black or Afro-Honduran](/source/Afro-Hondurans) and 0.05% others.<ref>[https://www.ine.gob.hn/V3/baseine/ Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), bases de datos en línea]</ref>

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Category:Municipalities of the Yoro Department

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