What is the only Central American not to speak Spanish as its official language?
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Belize-English is the official language though Spanish, Maya and Garifuna are also spoken.
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Depends on where in Latin America you mean. Do you mean Mexico, if so, what part? \n\nIf you mean Columbia the biggest problem is being kidnapped as an American hostage! If you mean Brazil, watch out for bandits, don't wear lots of jewelry. \n\nWhat do you need? Where are you going?!?!
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The most common Spanish dialect is Castillian, which is the one that all the Spanish speaking countries in Latin America and most of Spain speaks. Other dialects still spoken are Catalan, Basque, Calo, Aragones, etc.
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New Mexico has no official language, so it's considered English and Spanish, by default.
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Most of Central America and the Caribbean Basin rests on the relatively motionless Caribbean Plate. The Pacific Ocean floor, however, is being carried northeast by the underlying motion of the Cocos Plate. Ocean floor material is relatively dense; when it strikes the lighter granite rocks of Central America, the ocean floor is forced down under the land mass, creating the deep Middle America Trench that lies off the coast of El Salvador. The subduction of the Cocos Plate accounts for the frequency of earthquakes near the coast. As the rocks constituting the ocean floor are forced down, they melt, and the molten material pours up through weaknesses in the surface rock, producing volcanoes and geysers.\n\nNorth of El Salvador, Mexico and most of Guatemala are riding on the westward-moving North American Plate that butts against the northern edge of the stationary Caribbean Plate in southern Guatemala. The grinding action of these two plates creates a fault, similar to the San Andreas in California, that runs the length of the valley of the Rio Motagua in Guatemala. Motion along this fault is the source of earthquakes in northernmost El Salvador,\nThe southern range of mountains is actually a discontinuous chain of more than twenty volcanoes, clustered into five groups. The westernmost group, near the Guatemalan border, contains Izalco and Santa Ana, which at 2,365 meters is the highest point in El Salvador. Between the cones lie alluvial basins and rolling hills eroded from ash deposits. The volcanic soil is rich, and much of El Salvador's coffee is planted on these slopes.
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I would guess somewhere in central america
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Seems to be the paca, all right:\n\n"It is called paca in most of its range, but tepezcuintle in Mexico and Guatemala."\n\nThat name sounds like what you typed.
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aztec pyramids, pancho villa, pinatas. I assume you mean Mexican/Spanish not Spain/Spanish
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About 371,000,000. But this amount doesn't include the population of Mexico, Central America or Caribbean.
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You are right.\nall of them are Americans.\n\nIt has been so accepted to say it like it is today, that when ever someone like yourself raises the question, a lot of people go... mmm you are right!\nwhy is that?\n\nMaybe when all of citizens of the other countries really want them to be known as americans as well will media take that into consideration.\n\nanother mistake also:\nMexico is not Central or South America.\n\nMexico is with Canada and the USA NORTH AMERICA.\n\nHope is useful.
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Because the official language in all countries of South America is Spanish (except in Brazil). Since the same language is spoken in Mexico, ignorants say that Mexico is in South America.\n\nThe truth is that Canada and the USA for "Angloamerica", whereas all other countries in American continent form "Latin America", and such division also rises the mess in understanding the difference between geographical and social borders.
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Mexico is not close to Costa Rica .... and Mexico City government uses(ed) Linux servers. Most desktops are pirated XP
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sure you would not rather go to mexico ? they also speak spanish in mexico
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Panama\n\nNote that this is also the southernmost country in North America, since Central America is part of North America.
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Yes. Central America is the southern region of North America, beginning south of the Gulf of Mexico (the exact location is defined variously) and ending at the border between Panama and Colombia. In the most common definition, it consists of the nations between Mexico and Colombia,which are:\n\nBelize \nCosta Rica \nEl Salvador \nGuatemala \nHonduras \nNicaragua \nPanama
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undocumented. Was part of Aztec, Inca, and Maya culture. Before spain landed in the region.
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Well Portugal colonized Brazil and during the Napoleonic Wars Emperor Dom Pedro II moved his court to Brazil and ruled the Portuguese Empire from there to escape the atrocities of the French.  Thus, Brazil is the only Portuguese speaking country in South or Central America.\n\nSpain settled the rest of south and central America (when a corrupt pope arbitrated a longitudinal line of separation).  Spain instituted a policy of paying it's officials only a fraction of what was required to live on...effectively forcing a system of graft and corruption that exists in Latin America to this day.  The officials even crafted a saying regarding the Crowns' requirements to be honest in dealings and to uphold the law.  "Yo Obisbo y no compleo"  (not sure of the spelling there, been a few years since I took Latin American History).  Means "I obey but do not comply."\n\nMuch of the Iberian peninsula is semi-arid...and except for Argentina and Chile and Mexico....the rest of Latin America is forests or tropical climates...there is some trade, but not all that much, about what one would expect of second world nations.