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Banana production in northern Honduras began in the 1880s and was largely in the hands of local people. A census of 1899 revealed that in northern Honduras, that over 1,000 people in the region between Puerto Cortes and La Ceiba (and inland as far as San Pedro Sula) were tending bananas, most of them small holders. [9]
On the eastern side of the north coast, the Spanish had more luck. The earliest settlers established coastal ports at Puerto de Caballos (today's Puerto Cortés), Trujillo and Gracias a Dios, as well as interior posts at San Pedro Sula and Naco. The latter experienced some growth during a brief gold rush in the 16th century, but in subsequent ...
City Mall is the name of three malls operated by Corporación Lady Lee in Alajuela, Costa Rica, and in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, Honduras.. City Mall Alajuela opened in 2014, it has 365 stores, it is the biggest shopping mall in Central America, and its visited by almost 10 million people in the year. 800,000 per month
Additionally, San Pedro Sula was left exposed to raids by pirates and French, Dutch, and English mercenaries. By the mid-18th century, the Spanish government decided to build a number of coastal fortresses to curb English attacks. One of these fortresses, the Fortaleza de San Fernando, was built in Omoa, less than 50 miles from San Pedro Sula ...
Puerto Cortés, originally known as Puerto de Caballos, [2] is a port city and municipality on the north Caribbean coast of Honduras, right on the Laguna de Alvarado, north of San Pedro Sula and east of Omoa, with a natural bay. The present city was founded in the early colonial period.
They founded a number of inland towns on the northwestern side of the province, notably Naco and San Pedro Sula. Map of the town of Trujillo from the 16th century. In the northeast, the province of Tegucigalpa resisted all attempts to conquer it, physically in the sixteenth century, or spiritually by missionaries in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Coat of Arms of San Pedro Sula. After defeating Sicumba, Alvarado led his army to the Indian village of Choloma, [157] in the general region of Puerto de Caballos. [152] On 27 June 1536, Alvarado founded a Spanish town beside the Indian settlement, with the name of Villa de Señor San Pedro de Puerto Caballos (modern San Pedro Sula). [158]
The Merendón Mountains rise in western Cortés, but the department is mostly a tropical lowland, the Sula Valley, crossed by the Ulúa and Chamelecon rivers. It was created in 1893 from parts of the departments of Santa Bárbara and Yoro. The departmental capital is San Pedro Sula.