305 U8 wk 17 country fact

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Central America中美洲• It includes 包含 7 countries: Belize 貝里斯 ,

Costa Rica 哥斯大黎加 , El Salvador 薩爾瓦多 , Guatemala 瓜地馬拉 , Honduras 宏都拉斯 , Nicaragua 尼加拉瓜 , and Panama 巴拿馬 .

Belize

• Official language: English• Gained 獲得 independence 獨立 from the

United Kingdom 大英聯合王國 on 21 September 1981

Costa Rica

• The largest and the capital city: San Jose• Official language: Spanish• The name of the country means Rich Coast in

Spanish

El Salvador

• Is the smallest and the most densely 密集地populated 居住於 country in Central America

• Official language: Castilian 卡斯提爾語 ; 純正西班牙語

Guatemala

• The largest and the capital city is Guatemala City. Official language: Spanish

• It has many volcanoes 火山 , and the country’s location 位置 has many hurricanes颶風 .

Honduras

• Official language: Spanish• This country also has hurricanes frequently 頻

繁地 .

Nicaragua

• The largest and the capital city is Managua.• Official language: Spanish

Panama

• The largest and the capital city is Panama City• Official language: Spanish

• Costa Rica 哥斯大黎加 is the one of the most visited 拜訪 country in Central America. So today we’re going to learn about this country.

Fun facts

• It has a life expectancy 平均壽命 of almost 77 years, one of the highest in the world.

• There are more than 121 volcanic 火山 ( 性 )的 formations 構成 in Costa Rica, and seven of them are active 活躍的 . Poas Volcano has the second widest crater 火山口 in the world (nearly one mile 英里 = 1.609 km) in diameter 直徑 , and Arenal Volcano is one of the ten most active volcanoes in the world.

• More than 25% of Costa Rica’s land is dedicated專用的 to national parks 國家公園 , reserves保護區 and wildlife 野生生物 refuges 庇護 . There are more than 100 different protected 受保護的 areas 地區 to visit.

• Costa Ricans refer to 把 ... 歸屬 ( 於 ) themselves as Ticos (males 男子 ) or Ticas (females 女人 ). The use 使用 of Ticos and Ticas are only used as males and females in Costa Rica.

• Cost Ricans speak Spanish, and English is most of people’s second language because there are many tourists 觀光者 . For people who can speak two languages they are bilingual 雙語的 .

• Costa Rica has more than 5% of the world’s biodiversity 生物多樣性 even though its landmass 大陸 only takes up .03% of the planet‘s 行星的 surface 表面 .

• it has more than130 species of freshwater 淡水的 fish

• more than 160 species of amphibians 兩棲動物 

• More than 208 species 種類 of mammals 哺乳動物

• more than 220 species of reptiles 爬行動物

• More than 850 species of birds

• More than 1,000 species of butterflies

• More than 1,200 varieties 種類 of orchids 蘭花

• More than 9,000 species of plants

• more than 34,000 species of insects