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M E X I C O

Belize City
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Huehuetenango
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Quezaltenango

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Lago
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Zacapa

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Puerto
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Puerto Corts
Trujillo

San Pedro La Ceiba

Sula

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Granada

Matagalpa

Juigalpa

Lago de
Nicaragua

Rivas

For many years it was thought that the sharks in

Lake Nicaragua were a unique freshwater species.
However, research has shown that they are in fact
Bull Sharks that have swum 120 miles (190 km) up
the San Juan River from the Caribbean Sea.

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Liberia
Pennsula de
Alajuela
Nicoya
Puntarenas

The strongest living creature is the Rhinoceros Beetle,

found in the jungles of Costa Rica. It can support
up to 850 times its own body weight, equivalent to
a human carrying about 70 tons (tonnes).
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Santa Ana
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San Miguel

P A C I F I C

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HONDURAS

Santa Rosa
de Copn Comayagua
La Esperanza
Escuintla

GUATEMALA CITY

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