San Pedro Sula is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras. It is located in the northwest corner of the country in the Sula Valley, about 50 kilometers south of Puerto Cortés on the Caribbean Sea. With a population of 701,200 in the central urban area and a population of 1,445,598 in its metropolitan area in 2023, it is the nation's primary industrial center and second largest city after the capital Tegucigalpa, and the largest city in Central America that is not a capital city.
University of Mary Washington (UMW) is a public liberal arts university in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Established in 1908 as the Fredericksburg Teachers College, the institution was named Mary Washington College in 1938 after Mary Ball Washington, mother of the first president of the United States, George Washington. The General Assembly of Virginia changed the college's name to University of Mary Washington in 2004 to reflect the addition of graduate and professional programs to the central undergraduate curriculum, as well as the establishment of more than one campus. The university offers more than 60 graduate and undergraduate degree programs in three colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business, and Education.
Club Deportivo Marathón is a Honduran professional football club based in San Pedro Sula. Founded on 25 November 1925, Marathón currently plays in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras.
The Christian Democratic Party of Honduras, known by the abbreviation DC, is a political party in Honduras. At the legislative elections, held on 25 November 2001, DC won 3.7% of the popular vote and three out of 128 seats in the National Congress. Its candidate at the presidential elections, Marco Orlando Iriarte, won 1.0% of the vote.
The Francisco Morazán Stadium is one of the three stadiums available to the city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras. It is an official stadium for games of the National League of Professional Football in Honduras and international matches and international competitions of the Confederation of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and FIFA.
The 1991–92 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 26th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament was the same as the 1990-91 season and a rematch of the final. C.D. Motagua successfully defended its 1990-91 title in the final against Real C.D. España. Both the title holder and the runner-up qualified for berths to the 1992 CONCACAF Champions' Cup.
The 2006–07 Honduran Liga Nacional was the 42nd edition of the Honduran top division. C.D. Motagua and Real C.D. España won the Apertura and Clausura tournaments respectively.
The 1978–79 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 13th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament remained the same as the previous season. C.D. Motagua won the title after defeating Real C.D. España in the finals. It's unclear why no Honduran representation was sent to the 1979 CONCACAF Champions' Cup. Nevertheless, Motagua, Real España, Olimpia and Broncos obtained berths to the 1979 Copa Fraternidad.
The 1987–88 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 22nd edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament consisted of two groups of five followed by a 5-team playoff round. Club Deportivo Olimpia successfully defended its 1986–87 title in the final against runner-up C.D. Marathón. Both teams qualified for berths to the 1988 CONCACAF Champions' Cup.
Students Helping Honduras (SHH) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) with operational bases in both the United States and Honduras. Predominantly active in the outskirts of El Progreso, SHH extends its humanitarian and developmental projects across the entirety of Honduras. Characteristically managed by student volunteers, the organization aims to mobilize youth engagement in addressing socio-economic challenges within the region, promoting educational and community development initiatives.
Rafael Pineda Ponce was a Honduran professor and politician in the Liberal Party of Honduras and President of the National Congress of Honduras from 1998 to 2002.
Esteban José Handal Pérez is a Honduran politician and businessman who is also known as the "Red Bull." He is the former president of the Liberal Youth of Honduras and previously sought the nomination to be a Honduran presidential candidate on behalf of the Liberal Party of Honduras. He served in the national parliament of Honduras from 1997 to 2001.
Flávio Ortega was a Brazilian football player and manager, who spent most of his career in Central America, mainly in Honduras.
Aníbal Barrow was a Honduran journalist and news anchor who had a television show on Globo TV from 05:30–07:30 from Monday to Friday. He was also a trained agronomist who at the time of his death was a professor of mathematics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.
Ricardo Jorge Jaar is a Honduran academic and businessman, known for his contributions in higher education and corporate social responsibility. He was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
Spanish-Hondurans or Honduran-Spaniards refers to the number of Spanish immigrants and Hondurans with direct Spanish ancestry living in the Republic of Honduras. This country has an important Spanish community that has spread throughout the national territory, this people are part of the white Honduran population. According to the National Institute of Statistics of Spain, in 2009 1,982 Spanish citizens lived in Honduras and by 2017, more than 2,888. Today there are many people with Spaniard ancestry who benefit from the dual nationality that is legally allowed between both countries.
Central American migrant caravans, also known as the Viacrucis del migrante, are migrant caravans that travel from Central America to the Mexico–United States border to demand asylum in the United States. The largest and best known of these were organized by Pueblo Sin Fronteras that set off during Holy Week in early 2017 and 2018 from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA), but such caravans of migrants began arriving several years earlier, and other unrelated caravans continued to arrive into late 2018.
The San Pedro Sula Honduras Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The intent to build the temple was announced on April 7, 2019, by church president Russell M. Nelson, during general conference. It is the second built in Honduras, and is the country’s northernmost temple.
The 2022 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship was the 7th edition of the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship, the men's under-20 international football tournament organized by CONCACAF. It was held in Honduras, in the cities of San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa.
