Plazas 5th E Culture C8-9

The area of El Salvador is
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The area of El Salvador is
almost the size of Massachusetts
The capital city of El Salvador is
San Salvador
El Salvador has 2 currencies
the colón and the US dollar
El Salvador has 2 official languages
Spanish and náhuatl
Archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero
........................... fought for the human rights of farmers and workers in El Salvador. Archbishop Romero was assassinated on March 24, 1980 in San Salvador, in a chapel while he was giving mass. The death of Archbishop Romero began the social conflict in El Salvador that lasted from 1980 to 1992 and morphed into a civil war between peasant and worker citizens and the government's military forces. In 2015 Pope Francis declared Archbishop Romero blessed of the Catholic Church.
El Tazumal in El Salvador
...................................is a very important Mayan archaeological zone near the city of Chalchuapa. This architectural complex has two pyramids, tombs, temples, water systems, and a ball court. The Mayans played this game a lot, which consisted of hitting a rubber ball with their hips, they could not use their hands and had to pass the ball through vertical stone rings placed at a great height on the wall.
The area of Guatemala is
a little smaller than Pennsylvania.
Guatemala's capital city is
Ciudad de Guatemala
Guatemala's currency is
the quetzal
Guatemala's languages are
Spanish and more than 23 indigenous languages.
Pedro Rafael González Chavajay (1956) is......................... considered one of the most important Mayan artists today. He belongs to the Tz'utuhil ethnic group, which is one of the twenty-three Mayan indigenous groups that inhabit Guatemala. He began painting from a very young age under the influence of his grandfather who was a painter. González Chavajay represents in his work the daily life, customs and traditions of the Mayan towns of Santiago Atitlán and San Pedro La Laguna.the marimba/Ricardo ArjonaIn Guatemala, El Salvador, and other Central American countries, ......................, a type of xylophone, is the main instrument of folk music. Central American music is a mixture of Mayan, Spanish and African music. In Guatemala, the most famous singer-songwriter today is ........................, who combines romantic themes with social and political themes.The area of Cuba isalmost the size of Pennsylvania.Cuba's capital city isLa HabanaCuba's currency isCuban pesoCuba's official languageSpanish (c)Puerto Rico's area isalmost three times the size of Rhode IslandPuerto Rico's capital city isSan JuanPuerto Rico's currencyUS dollarPuerto Rico has 2 official languages:Spanish & EnglishDominican Republic's area isthe size of New Hampshire and Vermont togetherDominican Republic's capital city isSanto DomingoDominican Republic's currency isDominican pesoDominican Republic's official language isSpanish (DR)a free associated state (territory with commonwealth status)Since 1952, Puerto Rico has maintained the status of .............................with respect to the United States. This means that Puerto Ricans are citizens of the United States, with the same rights and duties as US citizens, except that they have to reside in the United States to be able to vote in the presidential elections. Puerto Ricans residing on the island of Puerto Rico vote to elect their governor every four years.Santo Domingo............................ was founded between 1494 and 1498 by Bartolomé Colón, brother of Christopher Columbus. In the colonial sector, the important buildings are the Ozama Fortress, which was the first military construction in the New World; the hospital of San Nicolás de Bari, which was the first hospital and the Monastery of San Francisco. In 1521 the first cathedral was built, and in 1538 the first university in the Americas was founded, with the name of Santo Tomás de Aquino.Wifredo Lam (1902-1982)............................, with a Chinese father and a mother of African, European and indigenous origin, is the most recognized Cuban artist worldwide. He visited and lived in Spain, France, Martinique, Haiti and again Cuba, where he began to include African elements in his paintings and mix them abstractly with human figures, animals and vegetation. Lam has won many awards and his works are on display at museums such as the San Francisco Museum of Art, among others. In this work, La jungla, cubist figures appear with African masks that are mixed with sugar cane and bamboo.merengue, bachata, rumba, son and sambaThe Caribbean rhythms of the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic are influenced by indigenous percussion instruments, African rhythms and Spanish instruments such as the guitar and violin. Rhythms such as ................................................result from this mixture. Juan Luis Guerra is one of the most famous Dominican singers of the last thirty years. Through his music, the rhythms of bachata and merengue became famous throughout the world. Romeo Santos from the Bronx, New York, of a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother, now performs bachata with great success.