| Official Name: | Santa Rita |
| Pushpin Map: | Honduras |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Honduras |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Honduras |
| Subdivision Type1: | Department |
| Subdivision Name1: | Yoro |
| Area Total Km2: | 129 |
| Population As Of: | 2023 projection |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Population Total: | 21536 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | Central America |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Coordinates: | 15.2°N -140°W |
Santa Rita is a town and a municipality in the Honduran department of Yoro. The Humuya River passes through it.[2] [3]
The town of Santa Rita has a population of 15,230 (2023 calculation).[4]
In 1684, it was a hamlet called Benque La Laguneta. It later became the village of Santa Rita El Negrito. The place was established as a town in 1959 with part of the municipality of El Negrito.
At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Santa Rita municipality had a population of 20,301. Of these, 89.73% were Mestizo, 9.20% White, 0.77% Black or Afro-Honduran, 0.17% Indigenous and 0.12% others.[5]