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1 Physical Geography of Central America
Fill in your map as we go through the slides

2 Mountains Sierra Madre Occidental Sierra Madre Oriental
Sierra Maestra Sierra Madre del Sur Central Highlands

3 Volcanoes

4 Landforms Yucatan Peninsula Bayous Desert (Sonoran, Chihuahuan, et al
Everglades Yucatan Peninsula Valley of Mexico Isthmus of Tehuantepec Isthmus of Panama Darien Gap

5 Rivers and Lakes Mississippi Grande Nueces Grande Conchos Santiago
Mobile/ Alabama Grande Mississippi Savannah Pecos Rivers and Lakes Nueces L. Pontchartrain Grande Conchos L. Okeechobee Salado Panuco Santiago Balsas Usumacinta Grijalva L. Nicaragua L. Gatun L. Maracaibo Orinoco Magdalena Caroni Apure Carura

6 Saltwater Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean Caribbean Sea
Guantanamo Bay Straits of Florida Yucatan Channel Windward Passage Bay of Campeche Mona Passage Caribbean Sea Pacific Ocean Bay of Panama

7 Islands Bahamas Cuba Jamaica Turks and Caicos Cozumel Cayman
Hispaniola Puerto Rico Virgin Jamaica Lesser Antilles Trinidad & Tobago Pearl

8 Islands

9 Poniendolo todo junto Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean
Mobile/ Alabama Grande Mississippi Savannah Pecos Poniendolo todo junto Nueces Bayous L. Pontchartrain Grande Conchos L. Okeechobee Desert (Sonoran, Chihuahuan, et al Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean Salado Everglades Sierra Madre Occidental Sierra Madre Oriental Bahamas Guantanamo Bay Straits of Florida Turks and Caicos Panuco Cuba Yucatan Channel Santiago Bay of Campeche Yucatan Peninsula Cozumel Sierra Maestra Windward Passage Cayman Hispaniola Puerto Rico Virgin Mona Passage Balsas Sierra Madre del Sur Valley of Mexico Isthmus of Tehuantepec Jamaica Usumacinta Grijalva Lesser Antilles Caribbean Sea Central Highlands Trinidad & Tobago Pacific Ocean L. Nicaragua Isthmus of Panama L. Gatun L. Maracaibo Orinoco Magdalena Bay of Panama Pearl Darien Gap Caroni Apure Carura

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12 Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts

13 José María Velasco, The Valley of Mexico from the Santa Isabel Mountain Range (1875)

14 Cenotes, Yucatan

15 Rio Usumacinta

16 Guatemala

17 Peten Lowlands, Guatemala

18 Costa Rica

19 Darien, Panama

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