The rep. of Central America...........had two capitals..........one was present day Guatemala City.........the biggest city by pop. in Central America..............the next and the last one was San Salvador............the current capital of El Salvador...............that tells me something right there.........political boundaries are somewhat arbitrary..............

The Federal Republic of Central America: A Dream Soon Ended

The United Provinces of Central America (also known as the Federal Republic of Central America, or República Federal de Centroamérica) was a short-lived nation comprised of the present-day countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The nation, which was founded in 1823, was led by Honduran liberal Francisco Morazán.

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The republic was doomed from the start, as infighting between liberals and conservatives was constant and proved insurmountable. In 1840, Morazán was defeated and the Republic broke into the nations that form Central America today.

Central America in the Spanish Colonial Era

In Spain’s mighty New World Empire, Central America was but a remote outpost, largely ignored by the colonial authorities.

It was part of the Kingdom of New Spain (Mexico) and later controlled by the Captaincy-General of Guatemala. It did not have mineral wealth like Peru or Mexico, and the natives (mostly descendants of theMaya) proved to be fierce warriors, difficult to conquer, enslave and control. When the independence movement broke out all through the Americas, Central America only had a population of about one million, mostly in Guatemala.