Puerto Cortes

Puerto Cortés, originally known as Puerto de Caballos, is a port city and municipality on the north coast of , right on the Laguna de Alvarado, north of and east of , with a natural bay.
  • Town with about 122,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
  • Description: municipality in Cortés Department, Honduras
  • Also known as
    “Port Cortez”
    “Puerto Cortés, Cortés Department”
    “Puerto Cortés, Honduras”
    “Puerto Cortez”
  • Historically known as
    “Puerto Caballo”
    “Puerto de Caballos”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Excélsior.
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Stadium
Estadio Excelsior is a multi-purpose stadium in Puerto Cortés, .
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Latitude
15.8515° or 15° 51′ 5″ north
Longitude
-87.9427° or 87° 56′ 34″ west
UN/LOCODE
HN PCR
Open location code
767JV324+HW
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Puerto Cortes” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بورتو كورتيس”
  • Armenian: “Պուերտո-Կորտես”
  • Asturian: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Basque: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Belarusian: “Пуэрта-Картэс”
  • Bengali: “পুয়ের্তো কোর্তেস”
  • Bengali: “পোর্তো কর্টেস”
  • Bulgarian: “Пуерто Кортес”
  • Catalan: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Cebuano: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Chinese: “科尔特斯港”
  • Chinese: “科爾特斯港”
  • Czech: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Danish: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Dutch: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورتو كورتيس”
  • Esperanto: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Finnish: “Puerto Caballos”
  • Finnish: “Puerto Cortés”
  • French: “Puerto Cortés”
  • German: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Greek: “Πουέρτο Κορτές”
  • Gujarati: “પ્યુર્ટો કૉર્ટ્સ”
  • Hebrew: “פוארטו קורטס”
  • Hindi: “प्वेर्तो कोर्तेस”
  • Hungarian: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Indonesian: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Italian: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Japanese: “プエルト・コルテス”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟೊ ಕೊರ್ಟೆಸ್”
  • Korean: “푸에르토코르테스”
  • Latvian: “Puertokortesa”
  • Lithuanian: “Puerto Kortesas”
  • Malay: “Puerto Cortes”
  • Marathi: “पोर्तो कोर्तेझ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puerto Cortes”
  • Norwegian: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Persian: “پورتو کورتس”
  • Polish: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Portuguese: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Russian: “Пуэрто-Кортес”
  • Serbian: “Пуерто Кортес (Хондурас)”
  • Serbian: “Пуерто Кортес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Sinhala: “පුවර්ටෝ කොර්ටීස්”
  • Slovak: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Slovenian: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Cortés (Honduras)”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Swedish: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Tamil: “புயற்டு கோர்டேஸ்”
  • Telugu: “ప్యూర్టో కోర్టెస్”
  • Thai: “ปวยร์โต กอร์เตส”
  • Turkish: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Ukrainian: “Пуерто-Кортес”
  • Urdu: “پورٹو کورٹیز”
  • Urdu: “پویرتو کورتیس”
  • Venetian: “Puerto Cortés”
  • Vietnamese: “Puerto Cortes”

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