San Pedro is blessed with excellent access via the most modern paved highways in Central America, has some of the best hotel infrastructure in the country and many attractive sites are within short distances from this industrial capital of Honduras. Don Pedro de Alvarado founded it with the name of "Villa de San Pedro de Puerto Caballos", and within the next 5 years was know as San Pedro Sula, with the name Sula deriving from the local dialect Usula, meaning "valley of birds".
