Mexico
largest urban area in the world
Mexico City
Climate zone found at the top of Mexico's mountains
tierra fria
Anguilla
Nicaragua's capital
Managua
Many Asians today live in these two countries
Jamaica & Trinidad
major steel-producing city
Monterrey
Mexico's two main service industries
banking and tourism
largest island in the West Indies
Cuba
Central American country with the largest population
Guatemala
write who describes daily life in Mexico
Octavio Paz
There are 3 altitude zones in Mexico created by these
mountain ranges
Long peninsula that extends South along Mexico's west coast
Baha California
official language of most of Central America
Spanish
Place where a waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans can be found
Panama
famous Mexican mural painter
Diego Rivera
What much of Mexico's border with the US is formed by
Rio Grande
Mexico has become less a country of farms and villages because it has become this
industrialized
official language of Belize
English
Europeans once ruled many of the islands in the West Indies as these
colonies
3 mountain ranges that make up the Sierra Madre
Sierra Madre Occidental (western side), Sierra Madre del Sur (south), Sierra Madre Oriental (east)
Mexico's coastal plains along the Gulf of Mexico and this coast
Pacific
This is why central Mexico is the country's most important economic region
good soil, water for ag, and lots of people
least populated country in Central America
Belize
Jamaica is one of the world's leading producers of
bauxite
This is very important to the economy of many of the islands in the West Indies
tourism