Physical Map of Central America
Physical Map of Central America.
Central America comprises geographically the territory located in the mid-latitudes of America, located between the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico and the Isthmus of Panama. The area is integrated by the seven independent nations of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, as well as the five Mexican states of Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Yucatan. The maps also include the western part of the Gulf of Urabá (region of the Darién) department of Chocó, in Colombia that is politically included in South America, and also the Antilles.
Continental Central America comprises the narrow strip of land that unites the two large portions of American territory, this sector is crossed by a mountainous system, smaller in length and heights to other in the north or south of the Americas.
