The world: historical and actual . - there are five Central American repub-lics and one European dependency, British Hondu-ras. These republics are: Guatemala, Honduras,San Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In 1823the Spanish yoke was thrown off. The division ofthe countiy into districts and states having nounity occurred about ten years later. The present constitution of Gautemala wasadopted in 1859. Santiago de Guatemala is the principal seaport is La Libertad, distant fifteenmiles from the capital. The Indians of that stateare more industrious than those of any other partof Central Americ
The world: historical and actual . - there are five Central American repub-lics and one European dependency, British Hondu-ras. These republics are: Guatemala, Honduras,San Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. In 1823the Spanish yoke was thrown off. The division ofthe countiy into districts and states having nounity occurred about ten years later. The present constitution of Gautemala wasadopted in 1859. Santiago de Guatemala is the principal seaport is La Libertad, distant fifteenmiles from the capital. The Indians of that stateare more industrious than those of any other partof Central America. Indigo is their chief articleof export. Nicaragua has a population estimated at 350, chief occupation is cattle raising. The capital,Managua, is built on the slope of an active old capital, Leon, ten miles from the Pacific i. VIEW OP PANAMA. capital. It has a population of 45,000. Guatemalade Cabelleros, once the capital, had a populationof 60,000, but earthquake and fire nearly de-stroyed it in 1773, and it now has only about one-third of that population. The republic of Hondurasis almost wholly peopled by Indians. Its capital isthe little town of Comayagua, on the Pacific Salvador has for its capital the city of the samename, founded by Pedro Alvarado in 1528, or rather,it did have, until repeated earthquakes and vol-canic eruptions compelled a change of site. Thecity of San Salvador was visited by destructiveearthquakes and volcanic eruptions in 1873. The coast, was surrounded by five active volcanos. CostaRica is supposed to have a population of little lessthan 200,000 souls. The Spanish portion of thepopulation clusters about the capital, San Jose,which has a population of 26,000. Costa Rica istrying to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans bya railroad running from Alajuela to Limon, a di
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