Puerto Cortés
Puerto Cortés ranks 5,745th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Sumer, Sumida, Tokyo, and Kingdom of León. Memorable people born in Puerto Cortés include Édgar Álvarez, Julio César de León, and Roger Espinoza. Puerto Cortés has been the birth place of many soccer players. Puerto Cortés is located in Honduras.
Puerto Cortés, originally known as Puerto de Caballos, is a port city and municipality on the north Caribbean coast of Honduras, right on the Laguna de Alvarado, north of San Pedro Sula and east of Omoa, with a natural bay. The present city was founded in the early colonial period. It grew rapidly in the twentieth century, thanks to the then railroad, and banana production. In terms of volume of traffic the seaport is the largest in Central America and the 36th largest in the world. The city of Puerto Cortés has a population of 73,150. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1979 and 1986, Puerto Cortés was the birth place of 3 globally memorable people, including Édgar Álvarez, Julio César de León, and Roger Espinoza.
People Born in Puerto Cortés
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Édgar Álvarez
1980 - Present
HPI: 33.73
Rank: 1
Julio César de León
1979 - Present
HPI: 33.13
Rank: 2
Roger Espinoza
1986 - Present
HPI: 24.89
Rank: 3
Most individuals born in present day Puerto Cortés were soccer players (3), while most who died were .
