On Your Map Locate the followingUse page 201 in your book

• Nations: Cities: Belize Panama City

Guatemala San Jose Honduras Managua El Salvador Tegucigalpa Nicaragua San Salvador Costa Rica Guatemala City

Panama Belmopan

Land Bridge connecting North and South

America

7 Nations • Belize• Guatemala• Honduras• El Salvador • Nicaragua• Costa Rica • Panama Major Cities:

Panama CitySan Jose ManaguaTegucigalpaSan Salvador Guatemala City Belmopan

Physical Geography

• Land Bridge connecting North America and South America

• Mostly Mountainous • Tropical Climate : Hot, humid, cool. • Off the coastal plains there is very little flat

land. • Active Volcanoes • Rain forests.

Mountains

The Sierra Madre Occidental and Orientals

Rain Forest

• Almost half of Central America is covered with Rain forests.

Geography: Weather

• Natural Disasters

Natural Resources

• Nickel• Iron ore• Fish • Timber • Oil

Problems???????

Population• Total population of Central America is about 41 739 000.

• Guatemala 14 027 000

• Honduras 7 466 000

• El Salvador 6 163 000

• Nicaragua 5 743 000

• Costa Rica 4 579 000

• Panama 3 454 000

• Belize 307 000

The people of Central America • Mestizo 70%

• White 8%

• Arab 1%

• Asian 0.5%

• American Indian 10%

• Black Creole 9%

Belize: English

Costa Rica: Spanish

El Salvador: Spanish

Guatemala: Spanish

Honduras: Spanish

Nicaragua: Spanish

Panama: Spanish

Rural & Urban Urban population: 48%;

Rural population: 51%

Schools in Rural Central America

School in Urban Central America

What differences do you see?

Agriculture2 major exports: Bananas

Coffee Where do you think

they export these to the most?

Other Exports: Cotton, natural resources (oil, iron ore, coastal goods), etc.

The Caribbean

13 Nations 11 Dependencies

The West Indies