San Pedro Sula

[ sahn pe-thraw soo-lah ]

noun

1. a city in NW Honduras.

San Pedro Sula

/ san ˈpeðro ˈsula /

noun

1. a city in NW Honduras: the country's chief industrial centre. Pop: 610 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Jerlín was a bus driver in San Pedro Sula, the country’s commercial capital, until gang members shot him three times in 2012 because he couldn’t pay the extortion money from which they demanded from him each month.

From Washington Blade

Hernández’s body was found in a San Pedro Sula street on June 29, 2009, hours after the coup that ousted then-President Manuel Zelaya from power.

From Washington Blade

The Blade on July 19 saw a plaque with the two organizations’ logos on it hanging inside their San Pedro Sula office.

From Washington Blade

Obdulio was sobbing when Jaime Marín, who runs the shelter with his mother, Yolanda Rocha, showed this reporter a picture of his brother’s mutilated body in the morgue in San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second-largest city.

From Washington Blade

He was also beaten, threatened with death, and they violently broke into his apartment in the city of San Pedro Sula, although by then he had already fled.

From Washington Blade

San Pedro Sula had become known as the most dangerous city on Earth.

From The Daily Beast

They marshaled their underlings in San Pedro Sula and set to recruiting a whole new crop of chairmen for their army.

From The Daily Beast