Americas
... cellular teledensity is approaching 70 per 100 persons international: country code - 507; landing point for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1), the MAYA-1, and PAN-AM submarine cable systems ...
www.exxun.com/Panama/f_cm.html
Americas
... the island was claimed by the Spanish Crown in 1493 following Columbus' second voyage to the Americas. In 1898, after 400 years of colonial rule that saw the indigenous population nearly exterminated ...
www.exxun.com/PuertoRico/a_fg.html
Americas
National Day, 12 October (1492); year when Columbus first set foot in the Americas
www.exxun.com/Spain/d_gv.html
Americas
... dialing domestic: full range of services available; GSM wireless service available international: country code - 1-649; the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) fiber optic telecommunications submarine cable provides connectivity to South ...
www.exxun.com/TurksandCaicosIslands/f_cm.html
Americas
... continent resulting in six continents. Alternatively, North and South America are sometimes grouped as simply the Americas, resulting in a continent total of six (or five, if the Eurasia designation is used ...
www.exxun.com/World/b_mp.html
Americo
... freed slaves from the US in what is today Liberia began in 1822; by 1847, the Americo-Liberians were able to establish a republic. William TUBMAN, president from 1944-71, did much to ...
www.exxun.com/Liberia/a_fg.html
Americo
... Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Krahn, Gola, Gbandi, Loma, Kissi, Vai, Dei, Bella, Mandingo, and Mende), Americo-Liberians 2.5% (descendants of immigrants from the US who had been slaves), Congo People 2.5 ...
www.exxun.com/Liberia/c_pp.html
Americom
... radio relay; totally digitalized in 1995 domestic: microwave radio relay and satellite international: country code - 299; satellite earth stations - 15 (12 Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 2 Americom GE-2 (all Atlantic Ocean)) (2000
www.exxun.com/Greenland/f_cm.html
Amerindian
white (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry), Amerindian, or other non-white groups 3%
www.exxun.com/Argentina/c_pp.html
Amerindian
mixed white/Caribbean Amerindian 80%, other 20%
www.exxun.com/Aruba/c_pp.html
Amerindian
... poor majority. However, since taking office, his controversial strategies have exacerbated racial and economic tensions between the Amerindian populations of the Andean west and the non-indigenous communities of the eastern lowlands
www.exxun.com/Bolivia/a_fg.html
Amerindian
Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15%
www.exxun.com/Bolivia/c_pp.html
Amerindian
Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language); note - less common languages include Spanish (border areas and schools), German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindian languages
www.exxun.com/Brazil/c_pp.html
Amerindian
British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%
www.exxun.com/Canada/c_pp.html
Amerindian
white and white-Amerindian 95.4%, Mapuche 4%, other indigenous groups 0.6% (2002 census)
www.exxun.com/Chile/c_pp.html
Amerindian
mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1%
www.exxun.com/Colombia/c_pp.html
Amerindian
white (including mestizo) 94%, black 3%, Amerindian 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1%
www.exxun.com/CostaRica/c_pp.html
Amerindian
The native Amerindian population of Cuba began to decline after the European discovery of the island by Christopher COLUMBUS in 1492 and following its development as a Spanish colony during the next ...
www.exxun.com/Cuba/a_fg.html
Amerindian
black 86.8%, mixed 8.9%, Carib Amerindian 2.9%, white 0.8%, other 0.7% (2001 census)
www.exxun.com/Dominica/c_pp.html
Amerindian
mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 65%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish and others 7%, black 3%
www.exxun.com/Ecuador/c_pp.html
Amerindian
mestizo 90%, white 9%, Amerindian 1%
www.exxun.com/ElSalvador/c_pp.html
Amerindian
Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, Basque minorities overseas departments: black, white, mulatto, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian
www.exxun.com/France/c_pp.html
Amerindian
black 82%, mixed black and European 13%, European and East Indian 5%, and trace of Arawak/Carib Amerindian
www.exxun.com/Grenada/c_pp.html
Amerindian
Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish - in local Spanish called Ladino) and European 59.4%, K'iche 9.1%, Kaqchikel 8.4%, Mam 7.9%, Q'eqchi 6.3%, other Mayan 8.6%, indigenous non-Mayan 0.2%, other 0.1% (2001 ...
www.exxun.com/Guatemala/c_pp.html
Amerindian
East Indian 43.5%, black (African) 30.2%, mixed 16.7%, Amerindian 9.1%, other 0.5% (2002 census)
www.exxun.com/Guyana/c_pp.html
Amerindian
Amerindian People's Association; Guyana Bar Association; Guyana Citizens Initiative; Guyana Human Rights Association; Guyana Public Service Union or GPSU; Private Sector Commission; Trades Union Congress
www.exxun.com/Guyana/d_gv.html
