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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 .
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]
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.
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 ...
San Pedro de Puerto Caballos (modern San Pedro Sula) was connected to Puerto de Caballos by a well-established royal road (camino real). By the end of the 16th century, pirates were plaguing the Caribbean coastline. In 1595, they attacked Puerto de Caballos, and followed the road southwards to burn San Pedro as well. [210]
San Juan United States: 125 337,300 37.06 42 San Pedro Sula Honduras: 278 771,627 36.03 43 Buenaventura Colombia: 157 315,743 35.16 44 Ensenada Mexico: 157 449,425 34.93 45 Distrito Central Honduras: 389 1,185,662 32.81 46 Philadelphia United States: 516 1,576,251 32.74 47 Cartagena Colombia: 403 1,287,829 31.29 48 Palmira Colombia: 110 358,806 ...
By RYAN GORMAN San Pedro Sula lays claim to a dubious title -- the world's highest murder rate. The impoverished Honduran city's roughly one million residents were slaughtered by drug gangs at a ...
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.