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Salvador What is surprising about El Salvador is the
vitality of its people and their sense of hospitality. Tour
options around San Salvador include ecology tours in the
Impossible Forest, the newest national park in Central America.
The forest is home to a variety of wildlife species, including
wildcats, deer, and white and crested hawks. To visit:The cloud
forest is in the Parque Nacional Montecristo-El Trifinio,
northeast of sleepy Metapán, a four hour bus ride due north
of San Salvador. Area:20,752km2, population: 6,470,379(2003),
Capital: San Salvador.See map.
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 En Guatemala, Guatemala's national bird
is the "quetzal"....a gorgeous creature which is almost extinct
due to deforestation and poachers. One of the most intriguing
cultural aspects is the infinite and exotic variety of the
handmade, traditional clothing of Guatemala's Maya population.
Live the splendor of the colonial era still extant in dozens of
small villages with their plazas and churches.
108,889km2, population: 13,909,384(2003), Capital: Guatemala city
See map.
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 México Mexico enjoys a cultural blend
that is wholly unique: among the fastest growing industrial
powers in Latin America, its vast cities boast modern
architecture to rival any in the world, yet it can still feel, in
places, like a half-forgotten Spanish colony, while the
all-pervading influence of native American culture, five hundred
years on from the Conquest, extraordinary. 1,972.547 km2,
population: 104,907,991(2003), Capital: Mexico D.F. See map.
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 Belize, In Belize, you can experience the
warm Caribbean teeming with the wonders of the deep, and lush,
exciting interior where you can walk the pathways of our
rainforest and discover the exotic and breath-taking wildlife
that awaits you. The cayes (pronounced keys), the offshore
atolls, and the barrier reef are the main attractions in
Belize.
22,965 km2, population:266,440 (2003),
Capital: Belmopan.See map
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 Honduras, The ancient Mayan City of Copan
has enthralled travelers since adventure travelers Stephen's and
Catherwood "discovered" it during the mid nineteenth century.
More mysteries of the ancient Mayans have been discovered here
than anywhere else. Visiting Copan will open a door to the story
of the most advanced civilization of pre-Columbian America.
112.088 km2, population: 6,669,789 (2003), Capital: Tegucigalpa.
See map.
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 Costa Rica About 116 sleeping and active
volcanoes, among them the famous Arenal Volcano, Poás
Volcano and Rincon del la Vieja (national parks), rainforest and
cloud forest areas such as Monteverde, Tortuguero and the
Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula, tropical dry
forests and mangrove swamps.Playa Jaco located about 140 km from
San Jose.
Area: 51100km2, population: 3,896,092, Capital: San Josè
see map.
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 Panama, also known as " Crossroads of the
World ". Only in Panama the Atlantic is 50 miles away from
Pacific Ocean. Darien jungle , the most extensive of Panama is
hostile , rich in timber and has exuberant vegetation of the rain
forest. Moreover , ecotourist explorers will enjoy the exotic
nature and fauna that includes an extraordinary variety of birds
, insects , iguanas , cocodriles, jaguar , tapir and Harpis Eagle
, national bird. Area:77,082 km2, population: 2,960,784(2003),
Capital: Panama city. see map.
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 Nicaragua, Managua is noteworthy in that it
is the only city in the world with four crater lakes within city
limits and it has two more just on its outskirts. Nicaragua is
also home to red-roofed Spanish colonial cities with magnificent
churches, an unsurpassed passion for poetry, and some of Latin
America's beautiful ceramics, leather and wood crafts and the
world's best hammocks and most delicious and varied rum.
Area:130.682 km2, Population: 5,128,517(2003). Capital: Managua.
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