Nueva Ocotepeque, with a population of 14,900 (2023 calculation),[1] is the capital of the Ocotepeque Department of Honduras. It is situated in the north-south valley of the Lempa River, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the El Salvador border, and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) east of the Guatemala border.[2][3]
Nueva Ocotopeque was settled in 1935 after the site of the former town of Ocotepeque was destroyed by flooding of the river.[4] It was briefly occupied by El Salvador during the Football War.
It is served by Nueva Ocotepeque Airport.
- ^ Citypopulation.de Population of cities in Honduras
- ^ "Nueva Ocotepeque". Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ "Nueva Ocotepeque". OpenStreetMap. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer. New York: Columbia University Press. 1952. p. 1354.