Bolivia / Paraguay 21. These two countries have no outlet to an ocean.

The Isthmus of Panama (Spanish: Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (Istmo de Darién), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America. It contains the country of Panama and the Panama Canal.

The North Atlantic Ocean lies to the west of France, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. In addition, a small portion of its northern coast borders the North Sea.

Chile occupies a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes Mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Thus, the geography is varied. The government system is a republic; the chief of state and head of government is the president.

Costa Rica is part of the Central American isthmus and borders Nicaragua to the North, Panama to the South, the Atlantic Ocean to the East, and the Pacific Ocean to the West . Capital: San José.

Nicaragua is famous for a lot of lakes and volcanoes. The two largest fresh water lakes in Central America, Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua, are located there. The country has a population of 6.2 million people (est.

The remainder 9% of Nicaragua’s population is black, and mainly reside on the country’s sparsely populated Caribbean (or Atlantic) coast. The black population is mostly of West Indian (Antillean) origin, the descendants of indentured laborers brought mostly from Jamaica when the region was a British protectorate.

Nicaraguans are the eleventh largest Hispanic group in the United States and the fourth largest Central American population. More than two-thirds of the Nicaraguan population in the US resides in California or Florida.

Managua

The current U.S. Department of State Travel Advisory at the date of this report’s publication assesses Nicaragua at Level 3, indicating travelers should reconsider travel to the country due to crime, civil unrest, limited healthcare availability, and arbitrary enforcement of laws.

Corruption remains a serious problem for doing business in Nicaragua. Transparency International’s 2017 Corruption Perception Index ranks the country 151st place out of 180 countries. According to Freedom House, since the election of Daniel Ortega in 2006, corruption had increased in Nicaragua.

You can swim in the cool water of the perfectly still lake, bordered by reeds. Lake Nicaragua is the only freshwater lake containing oceanic animal life, including sharks, swordfish, and tarpon.

Alligators, crocodiles (Crocodilus acutus), caimans (Caiman crocodilus), and the Ñoca turtle (Trachemys scripta) are frequently seen along the Río San Juan and some larger rivers of Jinotega.

Lake Nicaragua, despite being a freshwater lake, has sawfish, tarpon, and sharks. Initially, scientists thought the sharks in the lake were an endemic species, the Lake Nicaragua shark (Carcharhinus nicaraguensis).

The only sharks in the Great Lakes region can be found behind glass in an aquarium. “There may be one kind of shark that could survive — some of the time — in the Great Lakes,” said Amber Peters, an assistant professor specializing in Marine Ecology in Michigan State University’s Department of Fisheries and Wildlife.

The Sea Lamprey is an invasive parasitic fish that is threatening the native fish species of the Great Lakes.

Lake Superior

Lake Erie infamously became very polluted in the 1960s and 1970s as a result of the quantity of heavy industry situated in cities on its shores, with reports of bacteria-laden beaches and fish contaminated by industrial waste.

For instance, the hottest Lake Erie water temperature ever recorded at Buffalo is 80 degrees, on July 25 and Aug. 4, both in 2011.

The blue in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron is sediment brought to the surface when strong winds churned the lakes. The green in Lake Erie and in Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay is algae, which builds on the surface when winds are calm.

Swimming can be a dangerous activity if proper precautions are not taken. That is especially true for the Great Lakes with Lake Michigan being the most dangerous.

That is 9.72 degrees above the average temperature for July 10 from 1995 to 2020 and constitutes the warmest surface water temperature ever recorded on Lake Ontario, according to NOAA CoastWatch data.

Lake Erie’s average water temperature reached 79.6 degrees on July 10, over 8 degrees above normal, and the warmest mark on record for any month (although it was similarly warm in mid-August 1995). Lake Superior’s average water temperature reached 55.8 degrees on July 8, over 6 degrees above normal.

Winter: There is less radiation from the sun, generally making temperatures cooler. That means the lakes are warmer than the air. However, the lakes become heat sources, giving up their energy to the atmosphere throughout the winter. Spring: The water stays cool longer than the air and land.

Lake Erie

Lake Superior

• Not only is Lake Superior the largest of the Great Lakes, it also has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in the world.
• With an average depth approaching 500 feet, Superior also is the coldest and deepest (1,332 feet) of the Great Lakes.

Lightfoot sings that “The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead”. This is because of the unusually cold water, under 36 °F (2 °C) on average around 1970. Normally, bacteria decaying a sunken body will bloat it with gas, causing it to float to the surface after a few days.