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San Pedro Sula (Spanish pronunciation: [sam ˈpeðɾo ˈsula]) is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley , about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea .
Widest at its northern end near San Pedro Sula, the depression narrows as it follows the upper course of the Río Humuya. [1] Passing first through Comayagua and then through narrow passes south of the city, the depression widens again as it runs along the border of El Salvador into the Gulf of Fonseca. [1] A economic activity map of Honduras ...
English: Location map of Honduras. Geographic limits of the map: * West : 269.50 W ... San Pedro, Honduras; San Pedro Sula; San Sebastián, Comayagua; Santa Ana de ...
Map of Honduras. This is a list of airports in Honduras, sorted by location. Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (Spanish: República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize).
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.
Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Ramón Villeda Morales) (IATA: SAP, ICAO: MHLM), also known as La Mesa International Airport, is located 11 kilometres (7 mi) southeast of the city of San Pedro Sula, in the Cortés Department of Honduras.
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.
The main motorway of the country is that from Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean to San Pedro Sula (CA-13), joining the CA-5 from San Pedro Sula to Tegucigalpa, and continuing to Nacaome and Choluteca in the south of the country, where it crosses the Pan-American Highway towards Nicaragua (CA-1).