San Pedro Sula (SAP)
The San Pedro Sula airport has two terminals integrated into the same building: A and B. There is an immigration office for two terminals. There are three gates and a waiting room.
Right now, a process of full renovation is underway to expand the airport by creating a new terminal while renewing the old terminal. It also wants to build a wall and a peripheral expansion of the parking area.
For more information about the airport, click here.
San Pedro Sula, the City
History
San Pedro Sula was founded in 1536 by Pedro de Alvarado in the name of Villa de San Pedro de Puerto Caballos. Its current name appeared five years later, due to its location in the Sula Valley. It was a small provincial town until the arrival of the railway on the Caribbean Sea in 1888. The city, which had only a few thousand inhabitants in the early twentieth century, has grown exponentially from that date.
Its initial location was south of the Valley of Choloma, near the abandoned village of indigenous people called Conta there Cholula, on the river Balahama. In 1537, the city was moved close to the indigenous people of Azula, next to the River Piedras following its destruction by the French and Dutch pirates.
With the advent of the processing plants of banana Western countries that economic growth in this region has been felt. In 2000 there were 540,000 people in this town.
San Pedro Sula has evolved over signicativement in the second half of the twentieth century through the creation of a major development hub. It is then set up factories, hospitals, pharmacies, colleges and universities thus creating a continuous development in this region.