San Pedro Sula (Spanish: San Pedro Sula) is the second largest city in Honduras after Tegucigalpa. The administrative center of the department of Cortes and the municipality of the same name. The name of the city is translated as “Valley of St. Peter”.
The city of San Pedro Sula is considered the most dangerous settlement on Earth: for every 100,000 people there are 171 murders a year. The safest area is the Central (The Ring), and the most dangerous – Rio Blanco (Rio Blanco).

Geographic location
Located in the north-west of the country, in the Sula Valley, 60 km from the Caribbean Sea.

History
The city was founded by Pedro de Alvarado on June 27, 1536 under the name of Villa de San Pedro de Puerto Caballos, near the city of Choloma. In the Sula Valley at that time there were 18 cities inhabited by Indians. The territory was covered with swamps and tropical forests. In the 18th century, the city was named San Pedro Sula.

During the first few years of its history, San Pedro Sula was the mint of Spain, where gold bars were cast. The city at that time produced a fifth of all the gold in Spain. In the 1550s, the mint was moved to Gracias a Dios, then to Comayagua. French, English and Dutch pirates repeatedly plundered the city, as a result of which the Spaniards were forced to move it to a modern place, further from the sea. This led to the rapid decline of the city, remote from trade routes and from areas with a favorable climate. In the 1890s, its population was about 10 thousand inhabitants. Rapid development began in the 1920s, when banana plantations began to appear around the city. The construction of the railway led to the industrialization of the city.
San Pedro Sula officially received city rights on October 8, 1902.

Sights
All the attractions of San Pedro Sula are located in the central area. Since the name of the city is translated as “the valley of St. Peter” (the patron saint of the city), a cathedral was built in his honor in this city. There is also a beautiful administration and an anthropology museum in San Pedro Sula.