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San Pedro Sula was founded by the Spanish in 1538, and was called Villa de San Pedro de Puerto Caballos. In the eighteenth century, the name was changed to San Pedro Sula, after the Minas Sula gold mines in the nearby village of Naco. The city was established on the site of 18 local Indian villages in the middle of the Sula Valley. The Indians were forced into labor to drain swamps and clear land for plantations and cattle ranches. Nowadays, the Sula Valley is the richest and most important agricultural region in the country.
During Spanish rule, San Pedro Sula was a center for gold mining and the minting of coins. This attracted pirates, and after attacks by British and French pirates, the settlement was moved farther inland to its present location.
Up until about the 1920s, San Pedro Sula was a small, unimportant town. However, at that time, it became the center of a boom in the banana business, and the city grew and prospered. (Many of the banana plantations were owned by American fruit companies, and Honduras thus became the first "banana republic").
There is not a lot to attract tourists to San Pedro Sula, aside from an interesting cathedral and a few museums. Most tourists who go to Honduras fly into the city's airport and move on to other areas of the country. From what I saw, San Pedro Sula is a dirty and polluted city, and I really did not enjoy my short stay there. It is also the most dangerous city in the country with respect to violent crime, and it has the highest incidence of AIDS/HIV in Central America. Leave a Comment
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 by traveldave
Tegucigalpa was founded by the Spanish in 1578 on the site of a Lencan settlement. (The Lencans were an indiginous Indian tribe related to the Mayans). The site of the city was chosen for its proximity to rich gold and silver mines. The city was initially called Real Villa de San Miguel de Tegucigalpa de Heredia. It was not long before the name was shortened to Tegucigalpa, and nowadays most of its inhabitants call the city simply Teguz. It is widely believed that Tegucigalpa means "silver hill" in the now-extinct Lencan language. However, because the Lencans did not mine silver, scholars argue that "silver hill" cannot be an accurate meaning of Tegucigalpa. Other theories are that Tegucigalpa means "place where men meet" or even "colored stones."
After independence from Spain, the capital of Honduras switched back and forth between Comaguaya and Tegucigalpa several times. But in 1880, Tegucigalpa was permanently made the capital of the country. Up until the 1970s, the city remained small and provincial. However, during that decade, many Hondurans immigrated from the countryside into Tegucigalpa. In addition, many Chinese, and even Palestinians, moved into the city, adding to its cosmopolitan atmosphere. Nowadays, there are about 1,500,000 inhabitants in the Tegucigalpa metropolitan area.
In the colonial center of the city there are several interesting churches and cathedrals from the Spanish era, as well as a few museums. Other than that, there are not many attractions in Tegucigalpa that would be of interest to tourists. Many visitors quickly move on to more interesting parts of the country, such as the national parks, the Mayan ruins of Copán, or the diving sites off the Bay Islands. Leave a Comment
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 by LATINO82
Walking in the main square on the town of Copan Ruins, which is about 5 minutes away from the Archeological Park, is a nice experience. You can eat a traditional plate of food there, and also do a lot of shopping in the souvenir that are located along the street of this pictoresque town. You can also find a lot of cyberc@fes... and restaurants with a broad variety of food national and international cuisine. Leave a Comment
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 by LATINO82
Mmmm, so many memories, food, beaches, people, what can i say.. is my home country! I like it a lot! Leave a Comment
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Another thing to get used to is the security. I don't remember seeing one single police officer in my two weeks there. But I do remember seeing plenty of Honduran Army on their Jeeps loaded with heavy machine guns. I also noticed that any decent store had a man with an AK-47 or other like gun standing in front of it guarding it. It was a bit different than what I was used to coming from the US. Leave a Comment
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One interesting thing about San Pedro is the sense that it is only half built. From arriving at the airport where we had to be shuttled to the terminal because it wasn't finished, to the roads, many of which seemed to be designated as 4 lane freeways of which only half was built, to the colonies where you had a mix of people living in cardboard shacks and habitat for huminity built cedarblock huts. I can only imagine what it is like after the Hurricane when through in the summer of '99. Leave a Comment
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 by jake22
Althea Jackson; the lovely lady who runs Sharkie's. She was more than helpful during our stay. Leave a Comment
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