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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 .
The site today is found on top of the hill known as Cerro Palenque (232 meters above sea level), above the town of Santiago, near the confluence of the Ulua, Humuya (Comayagua) and Blanco rivers, and on several hilltops to the north. It is located some 40 kilometers from the city of San Pedro Sula in Honduras.
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]
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.
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.
Anti-semitic and anti-Arabic graffiti in San Pedro Sula. Antisemitism rose in Honduras during the 2009 coup. With the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis, the local Jewish community became embroiled in the controversy. [6] Rumors spread throughout the Honduran media of Jewish and Israeli involvement in the coup d'état. [7]
San Pedro Sula Metropolitan Cathedral Catedral Metropolitana San Pedro Apóstol (Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle). 15°30′19″N 88°01′27″W / 15.5053°N 88.0241°W / 15.5053; -88
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 ...