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San Pedro Sula is a ceety in Honduras. It is locatit in the northwast corner o the kintra, in the Valle de Sula (Sula Valley), aboot 60 km sooth o Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. Wi an estimatit population o 802,598 fowk (2010 estimate) in its metro aurie, it is the seicont lairgest ceety in the kintra ahint the caipital Tegucigalpa, an is considered the industrial centre o Honduras. It is the caipital o the Cortés Depairtment. The ceety serves as a major transportation hub for the rest o the kintra, while economically maintainin its base in licht industry an the commercial production o coffee, bananas, beef, succar cane, tobacco, an forestry.
San Pedro Sula "Usula (Glen o Birds)" | |
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Eik-name(s): La Capital Industrial | |
Coordinates: 15°30′0″N 88°2′0″W | |
Kintra | Honduras |
Depairtment | Cortés |
Municipio (Coonty) | San Pedro Sula |
Foondation | Juin 1536 |
Govrenment | |
• Mayor | Juan Carlos Zuniga (PLH) |
Area | |
• Urban | 840 km2 (320 sq mi) |
Elevation | 83 m (272 ft) |
Population | |
• City | 873,824 |
• Density | 2427.7/km2 (6,288/sq mi) |
• Metro | 1,245,598 |
Time zone | UTCUTC(−6GMT) |
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