A large city with approximately 700 000 inhabitants, San Pedro Sula is the country's industrial and commercial capital. , by tourists, it does not really have interesting sites and suffers from a bad reputation, security question. Some argue that the city is the most dangerous of Latin America with São Paulo in Brazil. However, the discerning traveller will find an exciting museum, restaurants and cheap hotels and clean and well kept streets. In any case, a passage is mandatory: it is the great road crossing on the north coast. Founded on June 27, 1536 by Pedro de Alvarado (under the name "Villa de San Pedro de Puerto Caballos"), San Pedro Sula ("sula" means "valley of birds" in local dialect) does not yet keep a relic of this rich colonial past. It is true that the city played the role of a stage and a crossroads on the Caribbean road (which was used to award passengers and goods for Europe), between Guatemala and Nicaragua. Indeed, most of the infrastructure was precarious and would not be in time. Not counting the assaults of pirates who used coastal cities like their pantry (the coastal station was destroyed in 1660). However, the Sula Valley was inhabited well before the arrival of the Spanish. Excavations have shown that natives populated the shores of the Río Ulúa a millennium before our era. Basalt structures evoke the olmèque culture, mother of all civilizations in Central America (at least according to our current knowledge) and indicate that trade was already well established. Naco harbour was one of the most important of the Maya world when conquistadors landed: it is assumed that products were shipped by boat from Mexico (Tulum in particular) along the coral barrier in Belize. Fifty years after the Conquest, however, less than 5% of the original population lived on their ancestral lands, the rest being decimated by the diseases or the Hispanic "genocide".At the end of the th century, the growth of the banana industry defied the fate of this hamlet made of brick and wood. Puerto Cortés's harbour then claimed to be the most important of the Amerindian continent.Today San Pedro Sula (called "San Pedro" by Aboriginal people) is the most active city in the country. The shopping centres, the industries follow (the famous maquila or subcontracting industries). As the saying states: " In Tegucigalpa, we are thinking, in La Ceiba, we have fun and San Pedro is working ". The North American influence is clear: American franchises are legion; on the pretext of creating jobs (a fallacious argument since wages are so low that these livelihoods barely survive in bauges), they do not pay taxes in the country for at least years. A new form of colonization?Hot and humid from November to May (especially from February to April), even warmer and wetter from June to October (torrential rain in the valley). The average temperature is around 30 ° C year-round.

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