Patuca is a municipality in the south of the Honduran department of Olancho, east of Juticalpa and south of Catacamas.
It contains the Patuca River, which is the second largest in Central America.
[1] At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Patuca municipality had a population of 26,668.
Of these, 98.27% were Mestizo, 0.92% White, 0.63% Indigenous, 0.12% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.06% others.
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