Land, climate, resources.
Haiti occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, sharing its eastern border with the Dominican Republic and facing Cuba across the Windward Passage to the northwest. The country covers roughly 27,750 square kilometers (10,710 square miles) and is defined by a rugged, mountainous terrain: more than three-fourths of its […]
Guyana lies on the northeastern coast of South America, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Suriname to the east, Brazil to the south and southwest, and Venezuela to the west. Covering about 215,000 square kilometers (83,000 square miles), the country divides into three main geographic zones: a narrow coastal plain, an interior white […]
Guatemala lies in Central America, bordered by Mexico to the north and west, Belize and the Caribbean’s Gulf of Honduras to the northeast, Honduras to the east, El Salvador to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Covering about 108,889 square kilometers (42,042 square miles), the country is largely mountainous except for its […]
Grenada is a small volcanic island nation in the southeastern Caribbean, lying in the Lesser Antilles about 100 miles (160 km) north of Venezuela. The main island covers roughly 310 square kilometers (120 square miles) and is oval in shape, measuring about 34 kilometers (21 miles) in length and 19 kilometers (12 miles) in width. […]
El Salvador is the smallest country on the Central American mainland and the only one without a coastline on the Caribbean, bordered by Guatemala to the northwest, Honduras to the north and east, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its landscape is dominated by volcanic terrain, situated within the Central American volcanic arc, and […]
