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9 unusual facts about Central America


Diego Manuel Chamorro

He also signed the Treaty of Peace and Friendship among the Central American countries.

Foundation for Self Sufficiency in Central America

The Foundation for Self Sufficiency in Central America (FSSCA) is a non-profit organization headquartered in Austin, Texas that works in partnership and solidarity with low-income communities in Central America.

Gunchei

Gunchei is a type of Central America Garifuna dance in which the men take turns dancing with each woman.

Horacio

The name Horacio is found sporadically throughout Central America and South America.

José Trinidad Reyes

As contributions to culture wrote several pastorelas, reconstructed by Rómulo Durón, which are the first theatrical manifestations in Central America, and whose thereof representation established bases for the subsequent appearance of theatre in Honduras.

Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica

Costa Rica is the only Spanish-speaking Central American country not to return deputies to the supranational Central American Parliament.

Papi fut

Papi fut or Papi futbol is a popular Central American variety of football played on specially constructed outdoor courts also usable for regulation basketball.

Pat Marcy

According to Corbitt, Marcy was so trusted by the Outfit that the money skimmed from casinos in Central America and Las Vegas was delivered directly to him.

Ptiloglossa

They are most diverse in South and Central America (30 or more species), with at least one species, Ptiloglossa arizonensis, occurring in the US.


1825 in the United Kingdom

18 August - Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor issues a £300,000 loan with 2.5% interest through the London bank of Thomas Jenkins & Company for the fictitious Central American republic of Poyais.

2012 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification

There will be a qualification held to determine the three qualifiers from the Caribbean and two from Central America who will join Canada, Mexico and the United States at the final tournament.

Al Giordano

On April 18, 2000, Giordano launched Narco News, a nonprofit news organization, to better inform Americans on the actions of the United States and other governments in the War on Drugs in Central and South America.

Allionia

The range of Allionia incarnata L. includes North America, the West Indies, Central America, and South America, while Allionia choisyi Standley is more restricted in North America, occurring in Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Texas.

Aztec Century

In this world, Cortez changed sides at the onset of the Conquistador era in the early 16th century, leading to the repulsion of Spanish invasion and occupation of Central America.

Bayesian search theory

Apart from the USS Scorpion, other vessels located by Bayesian search theory include the MV Derbyshire, the largest British vessel ever lost at sea, and the SS Central America.

Brown Violetear

The Brown Violetear (Colibri delphinae) is a large hummingbird that breeds at middle elevations in the mountains in Central America, and western and northern South America (primarily the Andes and the Tepuis) with isolated populations on Trinidad and in the Brazilian state Bahia.

Calabazo virus

It is a novel New World microtine rodent-borne hantavirus discovered in Central America on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama in early 2000.

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Southwestern North America, from western Texas west to California (Sierra Nevada foothills, San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento Valley, and the Inner North Coast Ranges) and south to Mexico and Central America.

Charles Cleveland Nutting

He conducted various zoological expeditions—in Central America for the Smithsonian Institution (1882-84), in Florida (1885), on the Saskatchewan River (1891)—and was naturalist of the Albatross Hawaiian expedition in 1902.

Coccoloba diversifolia

Coccoloba diversifolia, commonly known as pigeonplum, doveplum, pigeon Seagrape or tietongue, is a species of the genus Coccoloba native to coastal areas of the Caribbean, Central America (Belize, Guatemala), southern Mexico, southern Florida (coastal regions from Cape Canaveral to the Florida Keys) and The Bahamas.

Emberá people

Along with Wounmeu, they are the only extant members of the Chocó language family and not known to be related to any other language family of Central or South America, although in the past relationships have been proposed with the Carib, Arawak, and Chibchan language families.

Esperanza TV

Esperanza TV (Hope TV) is a Spanish Christian TV channel for North and Central America.

George Augustus Frederic II

The southern expansion met strong resistance from the Republics of Nicaragua and Honduras, as well as the United States, who wished to limit British influence in Central America.

Gregorio Di Leo

Gregorio Di Leo has been the one of European athlete capable of winning a team competition in the United States, together with Roberto Bellotti (Amerikick International, Atlantic City, 2005) and he is the only European athlete that has been able to win a race in Central America(Guatemala City, Great Maya Challenge, 2006).

Herndon Monument

It was erected in memory of Captain William Lewis Herndon who courageously decided to go down with his ship, SS Central America, and the men left aboard rather than save himself on September 12, 1857.

Iberian Union

On the other hand, the Iberian Union opened to both countries a worldwide span of control, as Portugal dominated the African and Asian coasts that surrounded the Indian Ocean, and Spain the Pacific Ocean and both sides of Central and South America, while both shared the Atlantic Ocean space.

Island raccoon

The term island raccoons is used as a generic term for five subspecies or species of raccoon (Procyon) endemic on small Central American and Caribbean islands, such as Cozumel and Guadeloupe.

Jeremías

On June 5, 2004 Jeremías commenced a concert tour: "Tour La Cita 2004", with appearances in the Aula Magna of the Central University of Venezuela, in Caracas, and International, in Argentina, Chile, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Central America.

Joseph Vandor

Joseph Vandor SDB, (born as: József Wech, known too as Vándor József, José Vandor, Wech József, Father Puchner) was a Hungarian Catholic Salesian priest, missionary and Venerable * 29 October 1909, Dorog (Komárom-Esztergom County, Austria-Hungary; today: Hungary) † 8 October 1979, Santa Clara (Cuba, America).

Juan José Gutiérrez

Juan José Gutiérrez Mayorga is Co-President and Board Member of Corporación Multi Inversiones (CMI), a large agro-industrial conglomerate which, according to an article in El Diario de Hoy, is one of the largest circulating newspapers in El Salvador, and one of the biggest corporations in Central America.

Latin American integration

The experience of dealing with the 1970s and 1980s communist insurgencies in Central America through the creation of the Contadora Group, which did not include the United States, inspired the creation of the Rio Group in 1986.

Linconia

Linconia was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862, after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln asked the Senator and United States Secretary of the Interior Caleb Smith to work on a plan to resettle African Americans from the United States.

McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender

In this function, the aircraft have been deployed to Kosovo to evacuate refugees, to the Caribbean and Central America to provide humanitarian aid after the hurricanes Luis, Georges and Mitch and to various countries in Africa and Asia to provide development aid.

Miguel Galluccio

He joined Houston-based oilfield services firm Schlumberger, and was designated general manager of the firm's operations in Mexico and Central America.

Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886

However, in order to embark in a U.S. port and disembark in a second U.S. port, the vessel must visit a distant foreign port outside of North America (Central America, Bermuda. the Bahamas, and all of the Caribbean except Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, count as part of North America).

Pearl hunting

In a similar manner as in Asia, Native Americans harvested freshwater pearls from lakes and rivers like the Ohio, Tennessee, and Mississippi, while others successfully retrieved marine pearls from the Caribbean and waters along the coasts of Central and South America.

Poor man's tropheus

The Poor man's tropheus, Hypsophrys nematopus is a species of cichlid native to Central America where it can be found in Lake Xiloa, Lake Managua, Lake Masaya and Lake Nicaragua and in riverine habitats on the Atlantic coasts of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

Puerto Rican dry forests

In this regard they are similar to Jamaican dry forests, but differ sharply from dry forests on the mainland of South and Central America, which are dominated by Fabaceae and Bignoniaceae.

Quercus oleoides

It grows in dry forests and pastureland of lowest North America and of Central America, from Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica to Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Rover Scout

Today, the Rover section remains an important part of Scouting in many European countries, in most member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations (e.g. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong), across Central and South America, the Middle East and in many other countries such as Ireland, Japan, Republic of China/Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Korea.

Salcajá

Salcajá is best known for the Church of San Jacinto, founded in 1524, which was the first church built in Central America.

Sheila Sondergard

Sheila Sondergard (born April 24, 1980) is a singer-songwriter, born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Maui, Hawaii, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and Central America.

SIMAN

ALSISA is in charge of operating the franchise since 2002 of the Spanish group Inditex in Central America with the clothing stores Zara, Pull and Bear Bershka, Massimo Dutti and Stradivarius.

Spencer S. Wood

In November 1888 he was among a group of four officers ordered to Mexico and Central America to make astronomical observations to determine the longitude of Coatzacoalcos and Salina Cruz in Mexico, La Libertad in El Salvador, and San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua; the group then traveled to Washington, D.C., to complete its calculations.

The Forgotten District

Between the Caribbean Sea and the Maya Mountains lies Toledo, known as The Forgotten District of Belize, Central America.

Toycie Qualo

Beck also notes that the interplay between Toycie and Emilio foreshadows the dominance of Mestizos in Belizean culture, even dismissing the People's United Party's Central American leanings as indicative of a culture moving away from English influence to Spanish, despite Britain's legal hold on the colony.

Trichomycterus

Species of Trichomycterus inhabit a diversity of habitats throughout South and Central America from Costa Rica in the north to Patagonia in the south, and from lowland Atlantic rainforest in the east to Andean streams in the west.

Turbo, Colombia

There is currently no paved road connecting through the region to Yaviza, Panama, where the highway continues through Central and North America.

Usnea rubicunda

Usnea rubicunda (Red beard lichen), is a type of arboreal lichen native to temperate regions in North, Central and South America, as well as Europe, Eastern Asia, and North Africa.

Windward Islands

Vessels in the Atlantic slave trade departing from the African Gold Coast and Gulf of Guinea, would first encounter the southeasternmost islands of the Lesser Antilles in their west-northwesterly heading to final destinations in the Caribbean and North and Central America.


see also

2004 FIFA Futsal World Championship qualification

Each confederation — the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) — was allocated a certain number of the 16 places at the tournament.

A. graveolens

Astronium graveolens, a flowering tree species native to Central America and South America

Acrata

Andrea's father is Bernardo Rojas, a former political leader in Central America who now researches "Prehispanic Cultures" at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de Mexico.

Alexander Shelepin

The policy of providing KGB support to national liberation movements in Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa was adopted during Shelepin's tenure in the summer of 1961 by Khrushchev and CPSU Central Committee.

Álvaro Morales

Álvaro Morales (born 1980) is a SportsCenter anchor for ESPN Deportes and ESPN2 (Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador) since June 2006.

Amy Carter

Attorney Leonard Weinglass, who defended Abbie Hoffman in the Chicago Seven trial in the 1960s, utilized the necessity defense, successfully arguing that CIA involvement in Central America and other hotspots was equivalent to trespassing in a burning building.

B. graveolens

Bursera graveolens, the palo santo, a tree species native to Central America and South America

B. nitida

Buddleja nitida, a shrub species endemic to much of Central America

Black terrapin

Black river turtle (Rhinoclemmys funerea), a geoemydid turtle found in Central America.

Caribbean Centre of Excellence for Teacher Training

The Caribbean CETT is a significant part of a hemispheric thrust by the USAID to improve student literacy in the first three grades of primary schools in the Western Hemisphere (Latin America & the Caribbean.) In the three regions of the Western hemisphere, the USAID created Centres of Excellence in Kingston, Jamaica, for the Caribbean, the CETT Andino, for South America in Lima, Peru, and the CETT for Central America & Dominican Republic located in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Cenizo

Blue Java banana, a banana cultivar sometimes called Cenizo in Central America

E. giganteum

Equisetum giganteum, a horsetail species native to South America and Central America

E. gigas

Entada gigas, the cœur de la mer or sea heart, a flowering liana species native to Central America, the Caribbean, northern South America and Africa

Edris Rice-Wray Carson

She attended Cornell University, where she was a member of the Alpha Phi sorority, and had a long career as a public health doctor, primarily in Central America and Mexico.

Elizabeth Anne Reid

She has 30 years of professional development experience in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central America, Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

F. aurea

Ficus aurea, the Florida strangler fig, golden fig or higuerón, a tree species native to Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama

Francisco Azuela

:*Condecorated by the Honduran government with the Order of the Liberator of Central America "Francisco Morazán", officer' s grade.

During those years The Honduran government awarded him the Order of the Liberator of Central-America Francisco Morazán, and in 1981 the Honduran Academy of Language nominated him for the Cervantes International Literature award.

Gary Muir

In 2010 Muir signed for Airdrie United in the Scottish First Division and at the end of the season was approached and offered an exceptional deal to play in Central America (Guatemala) with US coach Jeffrey Korytoski at Antigua GFC.

Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead

From 12 October 2009 to 11 May 2010 Glenys Kinnock served as Minister of State with responsibility for Africa, the Caribbean, Central America and the UN, filling a post left vacant after the resignation of Lord Malloch-Brown.

Hendrick van Rensselaer

Charles W. van Rensselaer (1823—1857), First Officer SS Central America

HIV/AIDS in El Salvador

Important government activities include signing the Declaration of San Salvador for fighting AIDS in Central America and the Caribbean and the creation of an HIV/AIDS/sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention program for mobile populations.

Imbricata

Tinea imbricata, a superficial fungal infection of the skin limited to southwest Polynesia, Melanesia, Southeast Asia, India and Central America

Juan Chang

For season 2010–11, Chang returned to Central America and joined forces with US coach Jeffrey Korytoski at Antigua GFC.

Karl von Scherzer

Here Scherzer became friends with Moritz Wagner and together with him travelled through North and Central America and West Indies (1852–1855).

L. alba

Lippia alba, a flowering plant species native to southern Texas in the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America

Lacerum

Trichocentrum lacerum, a species of orchid found from Central America to Colombia

Massaranduba

Manilkara bidentata - one of the common names for a species of Manilkara tree based in northern South America, Central America and the Caribbean.

Mexica Movement

This nation will comprise North and Central America (Anahuac) and South America (Tawantinsuyo), fused into a single federation, under the collectively-democratic control of Indigenous people.

Motagua Valley thornscrub

The Motagua Valley thornscrub forms a habitat for 75 bird species, mainly Columbidae, Tyrannidae, Icteridae and Fringillidae, and it is the only place in Central America where Momotus mexicanus lives.

Nahua

Nahua peoples, certain indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America, with native languages and dialects related to Nahuatl

P. purpurea

Pheidole purpurea, an ant species found in Mexico and Central America

Pedro de Alvarado

C. S. Forester's 1937 novel The Happy Return, set in Central America in 1808, features a character El Supremo who claims to be a descendant of Alvarado by a (fictional) marriage to a daughter of Moctezuma.

Prehispanic history of Chile

There are numerous theories on the settlement of the Americas; the most accepted currently, that of Paul Rivet, states that there were numerous arrivals for different reasons: those leaving Asia via the Bering Straits, but also those traveling from island to island in Polynesia and Melanesia, via Central America.

Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting

Strongly influenced by John Lloyd Stephens’ 1841 bestseller, Incident of Travel in Central America, Parley Pratt set various Book of Mormon lands (including, apparently, the narrow neck) farther north and west of Panama.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

These corporations were involved in funding the development of synthetic rubber, construction and operation of a tin smelter, and establishment of abaca (Manila hemp) plantations in Central America.

Republica United

Republica United is currently working on receiving donations to help schools in Costa Rica, and they look forward to helping Nicaragua and other parts of Central America.

Roupala

Central America supports three species in addition to the widespread R. montana: R. glaberrima which is found throughout Central America, R. loranthoides which is endemic to Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica, and R. percoriacea, a Panamanian endemic.

Santa Claus melon

They are grown in Brazil and Central America to supply to Europe during autumn, winter and spring.

Senegalia greggii

(Note: "Cat's Claw" is also used to refer to Uncaria tomentosa, a woody vine found in the tropical jungles of South and Central America)

SIEPAC

While the IDB had suggested that electricity generating companies should not be allowed to hold shares in the transmission company, this has apparently been accepted by the governments of Central America.

T. erecta

Tagetes erecta, the Mexican marigold, a plant species native to Mexico and Central America

Tallest buildings in Central America

Historically most of the tallest building structures in Central America have been located in Guatemala City and San Salvador.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

Talinum paniculatum is a native plant from West Indies and Central America and has common names of Flameflower and Jewels-of-Opar.

Thai passport

In particular, Thai permanent residents of the United States or Canada can show their green card or Canadian Immigration Identification record together with their Thai passport in order to gain entry to many countries in Central America and the Caribbean.

The Rough Guide to the Music of Central America

The Rough Guide to the Music of Central America is a world music compilation album originally released in 2001.

Theodore C. Lyster

After the death of Dr Gorgas, Lyster carried on his work with the Rockefeller Foundation (1920–24) of eliminating yellow fever from Mexico and Central America.

Tylopilus

Members of the genus are also abundant in South America, particularly in forests with trees of the genus Dicymbe in Guyana, as well as Central America and elsewhere across tropical regions around the world.

Warrior wasp

Synoeca, a genus of wasps found in South and Central America.