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