Mesoamerica is the historical and cultural macro-region stretching from central Mexico through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, defined by the shared civilizational legacy of the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, Aztec and other pre-Columbian peoples. Its unifying traits include a distinctive calendar system, monumental pyramid architecture, maize-based agriculture and a network of trade and ritual practices that bound its many separate polities together for millennia before European contact.
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- Also in Agriculture and Farming Atlas: Boll Weevil, is where this subject originated.
- Also in Divinity Atlas: Mesoamerica, the same subject.
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Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area comprising the modern day lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, western Honduras, and the Greater Nicoya region of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Mesoamerica (Wikipedia)
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There are 83 inactive and active volcanoes within the Sierra Madre range, including 11 in Mexico, 37 in Guatemala, 23 in El Salvador, 25 in Nicaragua, and 3 in northwestern Costa Rica.
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