Drought Puts 237 of 298 Honduran Municipalities on Alert

Published on Honduras Daily · Jul 24, 2026 · Originally reported July 21, 2026 by HCH

Drought tied to El Niño has led Honduras's disaster agency, COPECO, to place 75 municipalities in the dry corridor under an indefinite yellow alert, while 49 remain on green alert and 113 are under monitoring for reduced rainfall across six departments.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for HCH, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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