Coyoles Central Explained

Official Name:Coyoles Central
Pushpin Map:Honduras
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Honduras
Subdivision Type1:Department
Subdivision Name1:Yoro
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Olanchito
Government Type:Democratic Municipality
Leader Title:Mayor of Olanchito
Leader Name:José Tomás Ponce Posas (Libre)[1]
Established Title2:Village
Population As Of:2006-01-17
Population Total:1144
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:Central America
Utc Offset:-6
Coordinates:15.4°N -86.6667°W
Elevation M:199
Geonames:3613105 -->

Coyoles Central is a village in the municipality of Olanchito in Honduras.[2] [3] It is located in the department of Yoro, in the central part of Honduras, 160 km north of the capital Tegucigalpa. Coyoles Central initially served as a company town for workers of Standard Fruit Company,[4] and was one of the principle settings in the book ,[5] by Ramón Amaya Amador.

Coyoles Central is 199 meters above sea level[2] and the population is 1144.[2] The terrain around Coyoles Central is varied. The highest point nearby is 1253 meters above sea level, 6.6 km south of Coyoles Central. Around Coyoles Central, the terrain is quite sparsely populated, with 22 inhabitants per square kilometer.[6] The closest major community is Olanchito, 13.4 km northeast of Coyoles Central. The surroundings around Coyoles Central are a mosaic of farmland and natural vegetation.[7]

The region is characterized by a Savanna climate.[8] Average annual temperature is 22 °C. The warmest month is May, when the average temperature is 24 °C, and the coldest is November, with 20 °C.[9] Average annual precipitation is 1599 millimeters. The rainiest month is September, with an average 213 mm precipitation, and the driest is February, with an average 38 mm precipitation.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alcaldes y Alcaldesas . Mayors and Municipalities . es . 28 December 2017 . AMHON: Asociación de Municipios de Honduras . https://web.archive.org/web/20151002233824/http://amhon.hn/j1/index.php/quienes-somos/autoridades/alcaldes . 2 October 2015 . dead .
  2. Web site: Coyoles Central. GeoNames. 28 December 2017.
  3. Web site: Aldeas y Caserios de Olanchito. xplorhonduras. XplorHonduras.com. 28 December 2017.
  4. Book: Robertson. Amy E.. Moon Honduras & the Bay Islands. 2 February 2016. Avalon Publishing. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvoeDAAAQBAJ&q=coyoles+central+yoro+honduras&pg=PT2602. Olanchito. 9781631214165.
  5. Book: Amaya Amador. Ramón. Amaya Fúnez. Carlos Raúl. Prisión Verde. 2010. Editorial Ramón Amaya-Amador. Comayagüela, Honduras. 978-9992663387. 26.
  6. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Population Density. NASA/MODIS. 28 December 2017.
  7. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification. NASA/MODIS. 28 December 2017. 28 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160228161657/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MCD12C1_T1. dead.
  8. Peel. M.C.. Finlayson. B.L.. McMahon. T.A.. Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 October 2007. 11. 5. 1633–1644. 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. 28 December 2017. free.
  9. Web site: NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index. NASA. 30 January 2016. 28 December 2017. 6 August 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130806035941/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php. dead.
  10. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM). NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016. 28 December 2017. 19 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190419091014/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M&year=2014. dead.

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