🇭🇳 Experience the People of San Pedro Sula ~ Walking Tour - Honduras

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San Pedro Sula (from Nahuatl : Sollan 'Place of quails' ) is a city of the Republic of Honduras , commercial capital of Honduras and administrative capital of the department of Cortés , one of the largest cities in Central America and the second city in population behind the the twin cities of Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela . Among other signs of its importance, the city is home to the most important industrial companies in the country, which is why it is also known as the industrial city of the country.

This city is flanked by the Sierra del Omoa and is located at the southwestern edge of the extensive and fertile Sula Valley , a region that generates approximately 62 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) and 68% of the country's exports. nation. It is also the only non-capital city in all of Central America with strategic and industrial importance.

San Pedro Sula was founded on June 27, 1536, under the name of San Pedro de Puerto Caballos, by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado . Initially, the town was established in the indigenous town of Choloma , north of the current city and very close to Puerto Cortés . 5 Due to this proximity to this port, the town of San Pedro was a victim of attacks and looting by European pirates who landed in that port. 6​ For this reason, the Spanish authorities were forced to relocate the town on more than one occasion.

For more than two centuries, since its founding, the demographic growth of San Pedro Sula was quite slow. Currently, San Pedro Sula is the city with the highest population growth rate in Honduras 7 ​. The economic development achieved as a result of the arrival of transnational banana companies at the beginning of the 20th century , and the subsequent establishment of industrial parks (ZIP) in the Sula valley greatly promoted the population increase in San Pedro Sula. 8 ​.

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