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Marcovia is a municipality in the Honduran department of Choluteca, on the Gulf of Fonseca.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Marcovia
Settlement.pushpin_map
Honduras
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
right
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
300
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location in Honduras
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
Honduras
Settlement.subdivision_type1
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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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Demographics{{coord|13|17|N|87|19|W|display=title|region:HN_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}}
  • Geography
  • References

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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