Central America 1909

Central America Map 1909.

The United Fruit Company (UFCO) (1899-1970), known as the Frutera, the Pulpo or the Yunai (in Costa Rica), was a US multinational commercial firm, founded in 1899, from the merger of Minor C. Keith's banana-trading concerns with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit Company.

The company produced and marketed tropical fruits (mainly bananas) cultivated in Latin America, and that during the twentieth century became a political and economic force in many countries in the region (the so-called "banana republics"), decisively influencing governments and parties to maintain their operations with the greatest possible margin of profits, to the extreme of sponsoring coups and bribing politicians.

Map cropped from a United Fruit Company's map titled "Central America, the West Indies South America and portions of the United States and Mexico" produced in 1909.
Source: United Fruit Company

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Central America - Historical Map

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Central America in 1798	Central America in 1892	Central America and the Caribbean historical map 1910
Political Evolution of Central America and the Caribbean from 1700	Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502	First voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492
Second voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1493	Third voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1498	Fourth voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1502
West Indies in 1763	Central America and the Caribbean c. 1800	Voyages of Christoper Columbus 1492-1504

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Central America - Countries

Guadeloupe, Central America	Guatemala, Central America	Martinique, Central America
Panama, Central America	Saint Barthélemy, Central America	Saint Martin, Central America