Gracias a Dios (department)
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Gracias a Dios (Spanish: Thanks to God) is one of the 18 departments (departamentos) into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.
Once a part of the Mosquito Coast, it was formed in 1957 from all of Mosquitia territory and parts of Colón and Olancho departments. The department is rather remote and inaccessible by land, though local airlines fly to the main cities.
The departmental capital is Puerto Lempira; until 1975 it was Brus Laguna.
Gracias a Dios department covers a total surface area of 16,630 km² and, in 1991, had an estimated population of 37,000. Though it is the second largest department in the country, it is sparsely populated, and contains extensive pine savannas, swamps, and rainforests. However, the expansion of the agricultural frontier is a perennial threat to the natural bounty of the department.
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