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The United Provinces of Central America (or PUCA- Provincias Unidas De Centro-America in Spanish) is the name given to the different states of Central America in the time after Central America's independence and before becoming their own distinct nations (between 1823 and 1840 [6]). It was a political movement that strived to unify the regions ...
Central America; Area: 523,780 km 2 ... seceded from Mexico to form the Federal Republic of Central America until ... time did some begin to regard Panama as a North ...
[9] [11] [12] On 5 January 1822, [1] Gaínza sent a letter to Iturbide accepting Central America's annexation, and all the territories of Central America were incorporated into the Mexican Empire. They would remain united with Mexico for less than two years before seceding to form the Federal Republic of Central America as the Mexican Empire ...
The United Provinces of Central America, later known as the Federal Republic of Central America, continued to exist until its 1841 collapse following the First and Second Central American Civil Wars. [116] Central America's independence led many Mexican provinces to desire increased regional autonomy for themselves.
Non-Native American nations' claims over North America, 1750–1999 Political evolution of Central America and the Caribbean since 1700 European nations' control over South America, 1700 to present Around 1000, the Vikings established a short-lived settlement in Newfoundland , now known as L'Anse aux Meadows .
In 1824, Central America had a population of 1,287,491. [36] [198] By 1836, it had an estimated population of 1,900,000; [196] the estimate, by federal administrator Juan Galindo, "largely over-estimated" the number of whites and excluded Honduras' indigenous population. [215] Central America was the most densely-populated country in the ...
Mesoamerican and Central America in the 16th century before the arrival of the Spanish. Of all prehispanic Mesoamerican cultures, the best-known is the Mexica of the city-state of Tenochtitlan, also known as the Aztecs. The Aztec Empire dominated central Mexico for close to a century before the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire (1519–1521).
Colonization efforts began in the late 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in the North. The first of the permanent English colonies in the Americas was established in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Colonies were established in North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.