Copán Department

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Copán Department is an administrative region in western Honduras known for encompassing the famous Mayan archaeological site of Copán and its surrounding highland communities.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Copán Department canonical 8
Copán Ruinas municipality 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf department of Honduras
administrativeDivisionOf Honduras
agriculturalProduct beans
coffee
maize
tobacco
borders Guatemala
Lempira Department
Ocotepeque Department
Santa Bárbara Department
capital Santa Rosa de Copán
climate tropical highland climate
contains Copán Ruinas
linked to: Copán

Mayan archaeological site of Copán
linked to: Copán

highland communities
country Honduras
elevationCharacteristic mountainous highlands
governedBy Governor of Copán Department
hasBorderType internal borders with other Honduran departments
international border with Guatemala
hasHeritageSite UNESCO World Heritage Site of Copán
linked to: Copán
hasIndigenousHeritage Maya civilization
hasMajorEconomicActivity agriculture
coffee production
tourism
hasPrimaryReligion Roman Catholicism
hasSecondaryReligion Protestantism
hasSettlement Copán Ruinas
linked to: Copán

Dulce Nombre
La Entrada
Santa Rosa de Copán
historicalSignificance center of Classic-period Maya civilization at Copán
knownFor Mayan ruins of Copán
linked to: Copán

coffee-growing highlands
colonial architecture in Santa Rosa de Copán
languageSpoken Spanish
locatedIn western Honduras
locatedInTimeZone Central Standard Time
linked to: Central Time Zone
locatedOnContinent North America
namedAfter Copán (archaeological site)
linked to: Copán
officialLanguage Spanish
partOf Republic of Honduras
linked to: Honduras
regionType administrative region
sovereignState Honduras
touristAttraction Copán archaeological park
linked to: Copán

Macaw Mountain Bird Park
transportInfrastructure primary roads connecting to San Pedro Sula
utcOffset −06:00

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Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Copán locatedIn Copán Department
Hieroglyphic Stairway locatedIn Copán Department
Acropolis of Copán locatedIn Copán Ruinas municipality
subject linked to: Acropolis
linked to: Copán Department
Acropolis of Copán locatedIn Copán Department
subject linked to: Acropolis
Great Plaza (Copán) locatedIn Copán Ruinas municipality
subject linked to: Great Plaza
linked to: Copán Department
Great Plaza (Copán) locatedIn Copán Department
subject linked to: Great Plaza
Temple 16 locatedInRegion Copán Department
Copán River flowsThrough Copán Department
Temple 22 locatedInRegion Copán Department
Western Honduras contains Copán Department
subject linked to: western Honduras