Businesses of Zacapa

The small businesses that provide products and services in the municipality are few. Currently there is an average of 4 small family run stores (pulperías) per community. In the urban center is where the bigger businesses are located such as the hardware store, grocery stores, depositories, veterinary services, cafeterias, a hotel and guest house, billiards, artisan workshops, shoe repair, plumbing services, electrician, tailor, carpenters and a welding shop.

 

Most businesses are run by their owners and a few employ one or two people on a non-permanent basis. What one cannot find in town one can find in the nearby cities of Santa Bárbara, Sigutepeque, and San Pedro Sula. Delivery trucks make their deliveries approximately once a week.


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