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• Países de la América Central • Otros rasgos • Belize - un país en la América Central al sureste de México y noreste de Guatemala. • El Océano Atlántico - el océano al este de la América Central. • El Mar Caribe el mar entre El Caribe y la América Central. • Colombia - un país al norte oeste de la América del Sur y al suroeste de Panamá. • El lago Nicaragua - Un lago grande en Nicaragua. • México - un país al suroeste de los EE. UU. y al norte de Guatemala y Belize. • Costa Rica – un país al norte de Panamá. • El Salvador - un país en la América Central al sur de Guatemala y Honduras. Guatemala - un país en la América Central al sur de México • • Honduras - un país al noreste de Nicaragua. • Nicaragua - un país en la América Central al norte de Costa Rica • El Océano Pacífico – el océano al oeste de la América Central. • Panamá - el país el más al sur de la América Central. • El Canal de Panamá - un canal en Panamá hecho por la mano del hombre, la conexión entre los Océanos Atlántico y Pacífico

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EL CARIBE República Dominicana El Mar Caribe

El Océano Atlántico El Caribe El Mar Caribe

Puerto Rico, la Isla Encantada

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Quizz - México 1. What is the capital of Mexico? ______________ 2. What country borders Mexico on the north? _____________ 3. What two countries border Mexico on the southeast? ____________ and _____________ 4. What ocean borders Mexico on the west? _________________ 5. What large body of water borders Mexico on the east? ___________________ 6. What is the name of the city in the northwestern corner of Mexico? _________________ 7. What is the name of the desert in northwestern Mexico? ___________________ 8. What is the name of the long peninsula on the northwest coast of Mexico? ___________________ 9. What is the name of the city in the northeastern corner of Mexico (at the southern tip of Texas)? ___________________ 10. What is the name of the peninsula in southeastern Mexico? _____________________________

Mexico - key 1. What is the capital of Mexico? Mexico City 2. What country borders Mexico on the north? USA 3. What two countries border Mexico on the southeast? Guatemala and Belize 4. What ocean borders Mexico on the west? Pacific Ocean 5. What large body of water borders Mexico on the east? Gulf of Mexico 6. What is the name of the city in the northwestern corner of Mexico? Tijuana 7. What is the name of the desert in northwestern Mexico? Sonoran Desert 8. What is the name of the long peninsula on the northwest coast of Mexico? Baja Peninsula 9. What is the name of the city in the northeastern corner of Mexico (at the southern tip of Texas)? Matamoros 10. What is the name of the peninsula in southeastern Mexico? Yucatan Peninsula

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The Mexican Flag is a red, white and green banner whose center contains an eagle eating a rattlesnake while standing with its left claw upon a nopal cactus, and a half circle of green oak (enciño) on the left (symbolizing strength) and laurel branches on the right (symbolizing victory). The red symbolizes the blood that was shed during the battles for Independence. The white symbolizes purity. The green symbolizes the fertility of the earth. The eagle eating a snake while perched upon a cactus is from an ancient Aztec legend in which the Aztec people were told by Huitzilopochtli (their God) that to find their promised land, they were to find the place where an eagle landed on a nopal cactus while eating a snake. After wandering for hundreds of years, they found the eagle on a small swampy island in Lake Texcoco. This new Aztec home was named Tenochtitlan (meaning "Place of the Nopal Cactus"), and in 1325, they built what is now called Mexico City. This flag was first used on September 17, 1968 (it was decreed by Gustavo Díaz Ordaz); it was a variation on a flag first used in 1821.