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4 days ago · At its narrowest point the isthmus is only about 30 miles (50 km) wide, and there is no location in Central America that is more distant than 125 miles (200 km) from the sea. Humid swamps and lowlands extend along both the west and east coasts, but four-fifths of Central America is either hilly or mountainous.
- Central America
Central America - Pre-Columbian, Maya, Aztec: Central...
- Independence (1808–23)
Central America - Independence, Revolutions, Nations:...
- The Spanish Conquest
Central America - Spanish Conquest, Colonization, Indigenous...
- Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, isthmus in southern Mexico, between...
- Central America
6 days ago · Central America [b] is a subregion of North America. [2] Its political boundaries are defined as bordering Mexico to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Central America is usually defined as consisting of seven countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras ...
- 523,780 km² (202,230 sq mi)
- 52,176,283 (2022)
- Central American
- $4,783 (exchange rate) (2013), $8,698 (PPP) (2013)
6 days ago · 019 – Americas 001 – World. 1990s CIA political map of the Americas in Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, [5] [6] [7] are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. [8] [9] [10] The Americas make up most of the land in Earth 's Western Hemisphere and comprise the ...
- 42,549,000 km², (16,428,000 sq mi)
- 22.67/km² (58.74/sq mi)
- 1.02 billion
- 35
4 days ago · History of Latin America, the history of the region (South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Romance language-speaking Caribbean islands) from the pre-Columbian period, including Spanish and Portuguese colonization, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.
Apr 20, 2024 · Guatemala, country of Central America that is distinguished from its Central American neighbors by the dominance of an Indigenous culture within its interior uplands. The country’s capital, Guatemala City, is a major metropolitan center. Quetzaltenango in the western highlands is the nucleus of the Indigenous population.
3 days ago · The term Afro–Latin American is not widely used in Latin America outside academic circles. Normally Afro–Latin Americans are called Black (Spanish: negro or moreno; Portuguese: negro or preto; French: noir) and are seen as part of the general Latin demographic, especially in countries where they have a considerable presence.
Apr 11, 2024 · More than two million people have left [PDF] Central America’s so-called Northern Triangle—comprising El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—since 2019, many of them fleeing chronic violence ...
