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Temple of Inscriptions, Mexico
cathedral, Comayagua, Honduras
Mayan temple
Mayan pyramid, Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
William Walker
Central America, c. 1900
Smoke from Central American forest fires drifting over North America, as measured by the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on May 22, 1998.NASA's Earth Probe Mission satellite can detect smoke in the atmosphere and is thus able to monitor large fires from space. Aboard the satellite, TOMS measures aerosols, enabling scientists to create maps of the smoke's density.
Spanish viceroyalties and Portuguese territories in the Americas, 1780
Learn how deforestation in Central American countries like Belize gives way to erosion and poverty
Examine Central America's reliance on plantation cultivation of warm-weather crops like coffee and sugarcane
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