San Pedro Sula is a city in
Honduras. The city is located in the northwest corner of the country, in the Valle de Sula (Sula Valley), about south of
Puerto Cortés on the
Caribbean Sea. With an estimated population of one million in the main municipality, and 1,445,598 in its metro area (2010), it is the second largest city, after the capital
Tegucigalpa. It is the capital of the
Cortés Department.