Category: Central America

Panama Bordering Countries

Panama 1995

According to HYPERRESTAURANT, Panama is a Central American country located between Colombia and Costa Rica. It is home to over four million people, with the majority of its population living in the capital city...

Nicaragua Bordering Countries

Nicaragua 1995

According to HOMOSOCIETY, Nicaragua is a small country located in Central America. It has a population of around 6 million people and its capital is Managua which is located in the western part of...

Belize Bordering Countries

Belize 1995

According to ESTATELEARNING, Belize is a small country located in Central America, bordered by Mexico to the north and Guatemala to the south and west. It has a population of around 390,000 people and...

Costa Rica Bordering Countries

Costa Rica 1995

According to ETHNICITYOLOGY, Costa Rica is a small Central American country located between Nicaragua and Panama. It is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The...

Dominica Bordering Countries

Dominica 1995

According to EXTRAREFERENCE, Dominica is a small Caribbean island located in the Lesser Antilles. It is bordered by Guadeloupe to the north and Martinique to the south. The total population of Dominica is estimated...

El Salvador Bordering Countries

El Salvador 1995

According to EZINERELIGION, El Salvador is a small Central American country located in the Pacific Coast region of the continent. It has a population of around 6.4 million people and is bordered by Guatemala,...

Guatemala Bordering Countries

Guatemala 1995

According to FRANCISCOGARDENING, Guatemala is a Central American country located between Mexico and Honduras. It has a population of approximately 17 million people with the majority being of Mayan descent. The official language spoken...

Honduras Bordering Countries

Honduras 1995

According to HISTORYAAH, Honduras is a Central American nation located between Guatemala and Nicaragua. It has a population of approximately 9 million people and is the second largest country in Central America. The official...

National Flag of Honduras

Honduras Presidents and Prime Ministers

National Flag of Honduras According to aceinland, the national flag of Honduras is a tricolor flag that consists of three equal horizontal stripes. The top stripe is blue, the middle stripe is white, and...

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago Industry

The industrial sector is important and largely based on natural gas, which is both raw material and provides cheap energy. In the country there are a number of plants for the production of methanol...

Panama

Panama Industry

Industrial operations are concentrated in the area along the canal and, not least, the free trade zone Colón on the Atlantic. In Colón, production takes place almost exclusively under the auspices of foreign companies....

Nicaragua

Nicaragua Industry

Since the mid-1990s, industrial growth has been mainly in the economic free zones, where the government attracts companies with promises of tax exemption and cheap labor. The number of compound factories, maquilas, has increased...

Jamaica

Jamaica Industry

The manufacturing industry mainly deals with the processing of bauxite (for aluminum) and agricultural products. Other important products that are manufactured are building materials and chemical products. According to ABBREVIATIONFINDER, JA stands for the...

Honduras

Honduras Industry

The biggest change that has occurred in Honduras economy since the early 1990s is the growth of the composition industry. In 2012, the so-called maquilas factories accounted for almost half of total exports. In...

Haiti

Haiti Industry

Haiti’s manufacturing industry has experienced a decline since the 1980s, due in part to the fact that the domestic market is small and the buying elite prefers imported goods. According to ABBREVIATIONFINDER, HT stands...

Guatemala

Guatemala Industry

The industry consists mainly of smaller companies that produce food, beverages and tobacco, as well as clothing, textiles and leather goods. Manufacturing has mainly focused on the domestic market and neighboring countries. According to...

El Salvador

El Salvador Industry

The industrialization that began in the 1960s stopped during the war years 1980-1992. Since then, the industrial sector has recovered. It is today dominated by the export-oriented textile industry. In order to create jobs...

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic Industry

In the Dominican Republic, lighter industrial goods for the domestic market are produced such as food, clothing and shoes, leather goods and cement, which makes an important contribution to the economy. Clothes and shoes,...

Dominican Republic

Dominica Industry

Tourism Tourism does not have the same dominant role at Dominica as at other islands in the Caribbean, although the importance of the tourism industry has increased in recent decades. During the 1990s, more...

Cuba

Cuba Industry

Cuban industry mainly produces food, tobacco products (cigars), machinery and chemical products. Cuba has invested heavily in medical research and manufactures both pharmaceuticals and medical equipment for export. Prior to the collapse of communism...

Belize

Belize Industry

For the domestic market, food and beverages are mainly produced, while the export industry processes sugar, citrus fruits (for juice concentrate) and other agricultural products. According to ABBREVIATIONFINDER, BZ stands for the country of...

Barbados

Barbados Industry

The industrial sector is small in Barbados and mainly produces consumer goods that are sold domestically or exported to other Caribbean islands. The agricultural industry is dominated by sugar processing and rum and beer...

Bahamas

Bahamas Industry

The Bahamas industry first began to develop in the 1960s and has a limited economic significance. The local market is small and the wage situation is too high for extensive export-oriented industry. According to...

Two humpback whales on food hunting in the Barents Sea

Geography of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is divided by several mountain ranges that run approximately parallel from northwest to southeast. Along the north coast lies the Sierra de Monte Cristi, which rarely reaches over 750 m. To...

Music in the Dominican Republic

Music in the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic music has deep roots in West Africa and Europe. Some of the music scene has also absorbed some cultural elements from the Taino Indians, who made up the majority of the population...

Franklin Domínguez

Literature of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic can hardly be said to have had a literature of its own before the liberation from Spain in 1844. The lyricist Manuel María Valencia (1810-70) introduced the romance, followed by Félix...

Church of San Estanislao

The Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a republic in the Caribbean, and constitutes the eastern 5/8 of the island of Hispaniola, which the country shares with Haiti. Hispaniola is part of the Great Antilles, and the...