Olancho is one of the 18
departments into which the
Central American nation of
Honduras is divided. It is the largest of all the departments, and Hondurans frequently point out that the department is larger than the neighboring Republic of El Salvador. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Olancho resisted government authority from Tegucigalpa to the point of causing a civil war. To this day, the old independent sentiments persist among Olanchanos, although the department's role as an agricultural producer has made it an integral part of the Honduran economy. The newly-sworn president of Honduras,
Manuel Zelaya, hails from the department, specifically from the city of
Catacamas.
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