Following our last post about where North America begins, today
I want to react to a google query, that brought a visitor here:
“Is Mesoamerica part of North or South America?” I want to
answer this question today. It’s obviously important here to
know what we speak about, when we use North, Central and South
America. Although the last article dealt with the question what
should be considered North America, it never gave a definition.
For this Article today, I want to define it, so everyone knows
what we are talking about and can extrapolate own explanations.
In case we divide the Americas in two continents, North America
stretches until the Isthmus of Panama. That’s pretty obvious. I
marked it in red on this picture. If we want to add Central
America as a geographic region, we do it at the Isthmus of
Tehuantepec. Central America therefore lies between the
isthmuses of Tehuantepec and Panama. I marked both in the next
picture. The circumstance of Mexico being separated by this
line, doesn’t make Mexico a Cent