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Show 9 part of, -t.be: country; there - The Caribbean Mountains rise At . Otltwashes- of st-l-t components' a' few rods this' of plain .. (Beng s-t en 1 , 9-16), The Pacific area- t ora l ti - tudes of the' 'coastal- 1 to 500 'mor-e plain-,' wl)'i-ch- - .,.'; out and on coastal this about - twelve - fifteer-r'-m±'es or Along-··the--larger - _ plains' merge with p La I n the "south , the Bay of Fonseca.. the coastal of to the -ri ve'rS' ent'i:l'lg-- coastal: p-il:rin the 'p'nr'er _. bordering abruptly Life s·ea coat. sands,- and gravels from- t-he--mO'unt!ainsaT"e·the , broad alluvial silt t.yp Lca.ll y -called the .-ttnorth .Ls their bas es+ l Les Caribean, small the ·pi'·ai;rrs. f in width from varies main 'coastal-plain abruptly- 'from' feet. than 5,000 tw.o 'rather' narrow- ceres-ta-}: ar.e and Again, rivers f1 , - is a "retcl't±vely . mountains" ris'e deposit ,gravel';;S'nti, lando flat of margin plain, coas t zones ----- Within the major geographic provinces there the rain forest, zones, tropical zone, and the arid The rain forest well over infinite a Lna, an' zone, life the arid upper On the Caribbean coastal plain and the coastal eighty inches. This mountains, the annual rainfall region is characterized by the on an is almost variety of plants, and many birds and other animalso northeast form of slopes tropical four main the cloud forests. ----- northern lower are corner of Honduras intense rain forest This area region ·because of still its and, the northwest in a corner relatively flat area of the least inaccessi9ility and remoteness. remains one of The Nicaragua devo Ld'-of explored of ·this m6'l:ft! It |
