The southern bump of Central America is in this area: the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua and easternmost Honduras, consisting of wet foreasted plains and hills.
There is a spine of mountains extending along the southwest which is topped by two volanoes, both over 4000 meters: Tacaná on the Chiapas/ Guatemalan border and Tajumulco, wholly within Guatemala.
In Nicaragua the spine splits in two with a lake(5) bearing the national name between them.
This is one part of a large area of the Americas where Spanish and Roman Catholic Christianity represent the majority.
Guatemala, capital of the nation, amongst the Sierra Madre(6) mountains, owes its origin to an earthquake which destroyed the prior colonial capital. The replacement itself barely continued through 20th century quakes.
A sampling of pre-Columbia languages follows: I. About 4000 years ago in Guatemala Proto-Mayan was spoken. It differentiated into the ancestral forms of the modern Mayan languages and spread northward. During their cultural peak lowland Mayan languages converged. II. The Arawakan language of Garifuna was and is still spoken on Honduras's north coast. III. Chibchan languages were spoken in southern Nicaragua, and further south.
(1) Translates as the Savior.
(2) Translates as Saint or Holy.
(3) Translates as Andrew.
(4) Translates as Providence.
(5) North America's ninth largest.
(6) Translates as Mother Range.