Marcovia
Sign in to saveMarcovia is a municipality in the Honduran department of Choluteca, on the Gulf of Fonseca.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Marcovia
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- Honduras
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Honduras
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Honduras
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- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Choluteca
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Jose Nahun Calix Alvarez
- Settlement.established_title
- Became a Municipality
- Settlement.established_date
- 1882
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 482
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2013
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.population_total
- 24,646
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 95
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Marcovia is a municipality in the Honduran department of Choluteca, on the Gulf of Fonseca.
== History == Marcovia was called Pueblo Nuevo until 1882 when it became a municipality and was renamed Marcovia by the president, Marco Aurelio Soto. The majority of the people in Marcovia used to be from El Salvador.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marcovia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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