La Lima is a city, with a population of 80,740 (2023 calculation),[2] and a municipality in the Honduran department of Cortés.

It is home to the corporate headquarters of the Tela Railroad Company, a subsidiary of Chiquita Brand.

La Lima has a strong international presence with the FHIA (Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agricola) plant laboratories, known before as "La Quimica" and the American Zone (La Zona Americana) built by the Chiquita banana company in the 1950s to provide housing for its first class employees e.g.: President, Vice-President, Managers, Engineers, Agronomists.

Many soccer players have come out from La Lima, Carlos Pavón, Milton "Chocolate" Flores, José Luis "El Pili" Aguirre, Marco Vinicio "El Chacal" Ortega, José Luis López, Reynaldo "El Chino" Pineda, José "La Coneja" Cardona, Gilberto Yearwood.

Back in the years, La Lima had one of the most famous soccer teams in Honduras, "Sula", known as "Los Canarios".