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El Progreso
Honduras
El Progreso, city, northwestern Honduras, on the UlĂșa River, southeast of San Pedro Sula.
The city, founded in 1927 as a banana trade centre, grew in the 1970s into a commercial and transshipment centre for the Caribbean ports and the interior. Industries include cement products, metalware, shoes, and coffee processing.
The city is linked by rail to Puerto CortĂ©s and is a hub for highways leading to San Pedro Sula, Tela, Yoro, and the Inter-Oceanic Highway; it also has an airfield. A steamship line operating on the UlĂșa provides access to the Caribbean. Pop. (2001) 90,475; (2013) 114,934.
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