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2 unusual facts about Central American


Afro-Central American

Some of these Africans also transported metals from mines in Guatemala to the Atlantic coast ports of Trujillo or Puerto de Caballos in modern day Honduras.

Garifuna soon defected to the Spanish and many settled around Trujillo, while others accepted land grants in the Miskito Kingdom.


Antiguo Cuscatlán

It is also the municipality with the highest Human Development Index in the nation, and in the Central American region according to the latest report by the United Nations.

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.


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1980 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

The teams were split into 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament, that was played in Tegucigalpa, Honduras under a group system.

1997 Centrobasket

This page shows the results of the 1997 Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as the 1997 Centrobasket, which was held in the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras from May 25 to June 1, 1997.

1999 Centrobasket

This page shows the results of the 1999 Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as the 1999 Centrobasket, which was held in the city of Havana, Cuba from May 4 to May 9, 1999.

2001 Centrobasket

This page shows the results of the 2001 Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as the 2001 Centrobasket, which was held in the city of Toluca, Mexico from July 11 to July 15, 2001.

2003 Centrobasket

This page shows the results of the Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as the 2003 Centrobasket, which was held in the city of Culiacán, Mexico from June 17 to June 22, 2003.

2004 Centrobasket

This page shows the results of the 2004 Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as the 2004 Centrobasket, which was held in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from July 7 to July 11, 2004.

2006 Centrobasket

The 2006 Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as 2006 Centrobasket, was hosted in Panama City, Panama.

2007 Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships in Athletics

The 12th Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships in Athletics were hosted in San Salvador, El Salvador, on July 7–8, 2011, one week before the inaugural North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Senior Championships took place at the same site.

2008 Centrobasket

The 2008 Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as 2008 Centrobasket, was hosted in Cancún and Chetumal, México.

2010 Centrobasket

The 2010 Men's Central American and Caribbean Basketball Championship, also known as 2010 Centrobasket, was hosted in the Dominican Republic.

Alessio Casimirri

In the Central American country he participated in the Sandinist guerrilla against the Contras, after which, together with other Italian expatriates, he opened a restaurant in Managua, called "Magica Roma" and more recently another seafood restaurant called "La cueva del Buzo" (diver's lair) in Managua.

Antonio Giannini

Giannini played with Fabiola Ramos at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games, winning the gold medal in mixed doubles.

Arturo Fuente

In the 1970s contacts were made between Carlos Fuente, Sr. and a representative of the blossoming Nicaraguan cigar industry and the company soon moved its production to Estelí in the Northwestern part of that Central American country.

Banana spider

Brazilian wandering spider, a South and Central American genus of extremely venomous spiders

Baseball at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games

The 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games were held in San Salvador, El Salvador from 27 November through 7 December 2002.

Burnelli CBY-3

Lowell Yerex was a New Zealander who had formed TACA – Transportes Aéreos Centroamericanos (Central American Air Transport) in Honduras in 1931, and joined the project when Burnelli convinced him that the CBY-3 could be used as both a cargo and passenger aircraft.

Caribe

Carib, a group of indigenous people in the Central American Atlantic coast

Central America bioregion

95% of Central American freshwater fish are South American in origin, with only the Tropical gar (Atractosteus tropicus), three clupeids (Dorosoma), a catostomid (Ictiobus), and an ictalurid (Ictalurus) of North American origin.

Curtin Winsor, Jr.

From 1983 to 1985, he served as the United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, advising the Central American government on economic policy.

Edison Coleman

He worked primarily with Radio Belize and is recognized as having brought that station to a position of prominence in the small Central American nation.

Eduardo Bähr

He is currently living in Tegucigalpa, where he runs a non-profit editorial service to promote publication among low-income Honduran and Central American artists and students.

Emerson Esnal Hernández

He qualified for the 2010 Central American Games in Puerto Rico, but withdrew due to injury, and in the same year finished 24th in the 50 km racewalk at the World Cup in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Francisco Bulnes

Juan Francisco Bulnes (person), lieutenant to 19th-century Central American statesman Francisco Morazán-->

Fruto Chamorro

In 1842, an attempt was made to reestablish a union of Central American states as the Central American Confederation, in accord with the "Pact of Chinandega".

Gloria Guardia

She has been awarded several literary prizes for her works, including an award from the Society of Spanish and Iberoamerican Writers in 1961, the Ricardo Miró National Prize for an essay or novel in 1966, the Central American Novel Prize in 1976, a prize from the magazine Lotería in 1971 and 1984, and the National Story Prize from the city of Bogotá, Colombia, in 1996.

Heads of Agreement

Heads of security crisis in the Central American nation of Belize in March and April 1981, occasioned by the rejection of the above.

History of modern banana plantations in the Americas

Since banana exports came to dominate the overseas trade and most of the foreign exchange earnings of Central American countries, and the companies could use their financial clout as well as carefully established connections with local elites, they had great influence over politics in those areas, leading O. Henry, who lived in Honduras (which he called "Anchuria") in 1896-97 to coin the term banana republic for them.

History of the Central Americans in Los Angeles

By 1980 the Guatemalan and Salvadoran populations were the largest Central American populations in Greater Los Angeles.

INCAE Business School

Dean Baker sent three professors, George Cabot Lodge, Henry Arthur and Thomas Raymond, to gauge the level of support from the business community and society at large in each of the Central American countries for the project.

International reaction to the 2009 Honduran coup d'état

Colom said that he will discuss with fellow Central American presidents in Managua about how to restore democracy in Honduras.

Jacinta Escudos

Jacinta Escudos, born in San Salvador, is a writer whose body of work includes novels, short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and journalistic chronicles that have been published in such Central American daily outlets as La Nación (Costa Rica), La Prensa Gráfica (El Salvador), and El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua).

James B. Burkholder

When the Sanctuary movement started in the 1980s, he became a supporter and even helped to transport and house Central American political refugees.

Jim McCafferty

Then in 1948, McCafferty was invited to coach Team USA at the Central American Olympic Games in Panama, and he led the U.S. to a gold medal.

José María Silva

In May 1829 he asked for a military judgment of the prisoners taken at the capitulation of Mejicanos, in the first phase of the Central American Civil War.

Joseph T. Goodman

This documentation was primarily supplied by Alfred Maudslay, an English archaeologist who made significant contributions to Central American archeology.

KREM New Years' Day Cycling Classic

The usual route is over the Northern Highway from Corozal District (at first Corozal Town, now the Santa Elena northern border) to Belize City, finishing at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Mahogany Street, approximately two blocks from the home of the race's sponsor, Kremandala Ltd., located on Partridge Street.

Lempa

Lempa River, Central American waterway flowing 422 km from its sources between Sierra Madre and Sierra del Merendón in southern Guatemala (30.4 km), where it is known as Río Olopa, through Honduras (31.4 km) and El Salvador (360 km) to Pacific Ocean; forms small part of Honduras-El Salvador boundary, where it is called Río Lempa

Nils Holmer

Unusually, he carried out fieldwork across a wide range of languages across several continents, including Irish, Basque, Siouan languages, Algonquian languages, Iroquoian languages, the Central American language Kuna and the South American language of Choco and Wayuu and Australian Aboriginal languages.

Now and Zen

It is the musical accompaniment to Crockett and Tubbs return to Miami via motor yacht after rescuing General Bourbon (a thinly veiled Manuel Noriega-type character) from the fictional Central American nation of Costa Morada.

Pablo Melgar

Tournaments in which he partaked include the under-17 and under-20 World Cup qualifying, the 1999 Pan American Games, the 2000 Olympic tournament qualifying and the Central American Games of 2002.

Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting

While there are disagreements about where the “narrow neck of land” resides, e.g. southern Mexico, Honduras, the Isthmus of Rivas between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Panama, the following list of theories can all be categorized as Central American based.

Reid Mack

In 2012, Mack shared his opinion to The Costa Rica Star with regard to the burgeoning film industry in Puerto Rico and how a movie starring Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, chose the Caribbean island over the Central American nation as a filming location.

Sanctuary movement

In 1980, Jim Corbett, Jim Dudley, John Fife and a handful of other residents of Tucson, Arizona began providing legal, financial and material aid to Central American refugees.

Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán

Marshall Saville, the first curator of Mexican and Central American anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, for example, excavated at Xoxocotlán, with permission from the government in the late 1890s, resulting in AMNH’s collection of Oaxacan artifacts.

Scarlet Macaw

In Central American the range extends from extreme eastern and southern Mexico and Panama through Guatemala and Belize, the island of Coiba and infrequently on the mainland of Panama, and two isolated regions on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica; the Carara National Park and Peninsula de Osa.

Violet-capped

Violet-capped Hummingbird, a Central American bird in the Trochilidae family

William Wadsworth Hodkinson

Soon thereafter Hodkinson joined with Roderick Burnham, the son of Frederick Russell Burnham, to form the Central American Aviation Corporation and Companía Nacional de Aviación in Guatemala.