Central American Integration System
Sistema de Integración Centroamericana
Central American Integration System
Motto: God, Union and Liberty
Anthem: La Granadera
Map of the Central American Integration System
Official language
Spanish
Type
Supranational union
Membership
8 members
Belize
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama
5 observers
Chile
Republic of China
Germany
Mexico
Spain
Establishment
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Court of Cartago 20 December 1907
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ODECA
14 October 1951
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CACM
13 December 1960
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SICA
13 December 1991
Area
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Total
572,510 km2
221,047 sq mi
Population
-
2008 estimate
50,807,778
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Density
88.75/km2
229.9/sq mi
Website
sica.int
Central American Integration System
(Spanish: Sistema de la Integración Cen-
troamericana; SICA) is an intergovernment-
al organization of Central American states. It
has a standing invitation to participate as ob-
servers in the sessions and the work of the
United Nations General Assembly[1] and
maintaining
permanent
offices
at UN
Headquarters.[2] Four countries, Guatemala,
El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, are
going through a process of political, cultural,
and migratory integration and have formed
the CA4 (The Central America Four) union,
which has introduced common internal bor-
ders. The CA4 is joined by Costa Rica in mat-
ters of economic integration and regional
friendship.
History
See also: History of Central America, Puebla-
Panama Plan, and Mesoamerican region
Central American Court of
Justice
Between November 14, and December 20,
1907, following a proposal made by Mexico
and the United States, five Central American
nations – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras and Nicaragua – took part in the
Central American Peace Conference in Wash-
ington, D.C, sponsored by United States Pres-
ident Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of
State, Nobel Prize winner Elihu Root. The
five nations, which had all previously been
Spanish colonies had sought on numerous
prior occasions, with great difficulty, to form
a political alliance. The earliest attempt