Internal migration in four cities of Honduras

Abstract

This research is focused on four major cities, major from an economic point of view (the capital and the first and second industrial cities), from a demographic point of view since these are the most populated areas, and from a migration perspective because they have the largest positive balance of the country in all-life or recent migration. They maintain their recent migratory attraction and the amount of the rest of the country is still an important movement. In them, the net positive migration is due exclusively by the migratory exchange between municipios located in other DAM from the rest of the country, since net migration with other municipios is less. In San Pedro Sula, the positive balance in results from the diference that is greater than the exchange combination with municipios from other DAM and the negative saldo from the exchange with the rest of the municipios from their own DAM, with which this municipio the tendency of losing attraction in its DAM possibly because of the expansion of its limits to adjacent municipios, this includes the municipios of Choloma, Villanueva, and other neighbors that belong to another DAM.