Editing Copán Department (section)

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
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| image_caption            = Cathedral of Santa Rosa
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| image_shield             = Glifo emblema de Copán.svg
| image_map                = Copan in Honduras.svg
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| pushpin_map_caption      = Location in Honduras
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| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = {{flag|Honduras}}
| subdivision_type1        = [[Municipalities]]
| subdivision_name1        = 23
| subdivision_type2        = Villages
| subdivision_name2        = 337
| established_title        = Founded
| established_date         = 28 May 1869
<!-- Area    --------------------->| seat                     = [[Santa Rosa de Copán]]
| government_type          = [[Department (country subdivision)|Departmental]]
| leader_title             = Governor
| leader_name              = Juana Barrera, [[LibRe]] 2022-2026
| area_total_km2           = 3239
| area_land_km2            = 
| area_water_km2           = <!-- Population   ----------------------->
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| population_footnotes     = <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.geohive.com/cntry/honduras_ext.aspx|title=GeoHive - Honduras extended}}</ref>
| population_total         = 382722
| population_as_of         = 2015
| population_density_km2   = auto
<!-- GDP --------------->| demographics_type1 = [[GDP|GDP (Nominal, 2015 US dollar)]]
| demographics1_footnotes = 
| demographics1_title1 = Total 
| demographics1_info1 = $1.1&nbsp;billion (2023)<ref name="TelluBase">{{cite web|url=https://tellusant.com/repo/tb/tellubase_factsheet_hnd.pdf|title=TelluBase—Honduras Fact Sheet (Tellusant Public Service Series)| date = 2024-01-11|accessdate=2024-02-01}}</ref>
| demographics1_title2 = Per capita
| demographics1_info2 = $2,300 (2023)
| demographics_type2 = [[GDP|GDP (PPP, 2015 int. dollar)]] 
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| demographics2_title2 = Total
| demographics2_info2 = $2.2&nbsp;billion (2023)
| demographics2_title3 = Per capita
| demographics2_info3 = $4,700 (2023)
| timezone1                = [[Central Daylight Time|CDT]]
| utc_offset1              = -6
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| postal_code_type         = Postal code
| postal_code              = 41101, 41202
| iso_code                 = HN-CP
| area_code                = 
| website                  = 
| blank_name_sec1          = [[Human Development Index|HDI]] (2021)
| blank_info_sec1          = 0.572<ref name="GlobalDataLab">{{Cite web|url=https://hdi.globaldatalab.org/areadata/shdi/|title=Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab|website=hdi.globaldatalab.org|language=en|access-date=2018-09-13}}</ref><br/>{{color|#fc0|medium}} · [[List of Honduran departments by Human Development Index|15th of 18]]
| footnotes                = Statistics derived from Consult INE online database: Population and Housing Census 2013<ref name="INE">{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.gob.hn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=220 |title=Consulta Base de datos INE en línea: Censo de Población y Vivienda 2013 |trans-title=Consult INE online database: Population and Housing Census 2013 |language=es |date=1 August 2018 |website=Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) |publisher=El Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) |access-date=2018-09-13}}</ref>
| image_flag               = Bandera de Copán.svg
}}

'''Copán''' is one of the [[Departments of Honduras|departments]] in the western part of [[Honduras]]. The departmental capital is the town of [[Santa Rosa de Copán]].  The department is well known for its [[tobacco]] and fine [[cigars]].

The department is famous for its [[Pre-Columbian]] archaeological site at [[Copán]], one of the greatest cities of the [[Maya civilization]].

The department of Copán covers a total surface area of 3,242&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> and, in 2015, had an estimated population of about 382,722 people.