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Puerto Cortés

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Puerto Cortés, city, northwestern Honduras, situated on the Gulf of Honduras. It is backed by Alvarado Lagoon and extends for 2 miles (3 km) along the southern shore of Caballos Point. Puerto Cortés serves as the seaport for San Pedro Sula and the Sula Valley.

The city was founded in 1524 as Puerto Caballos, just to the south across Cortés Bay, but was moved and had its name changed to Puerto Cortés in 1869, when construction of the railway to Potrerillos was begun. In 1974 Hurricane Fifi inflicted serious damage on the city, but by the late 1970s it had recovered.

The port works, including one of the best container facilities in Central America, handle a large portion of Honduran trade; bananas, coffee, coconuts, hardwood, and flour are the principal exports. The hot and rainy city is also a prosperous industrial centre, housing dairies, flour mills, and plants processing such foods as fish, banana flour, and coconut oil, in addition to African palm oil, beverages, soap, and leather goods; it has a small oil refinery, and a thermal electric generating plant has been added. In 1977 a free-trade zone for an industrial park was established in the city, and by 1979 several foreign clothing factories were in operation.

Puerto Cortés is linked by railroad and highway to several other centres, and a road leads to Tegucigalpa, the national capital. An airport serves domestic airlines. Hurricane Mitch severely damaged the city and surrounding region in October 1998, and recovery was slow and difficult. Pop. (2001) 44,696; (2013) 59,676.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Maren Goldberg.