Much more than just a place filled with forests, rivers, lakes and archaeological sites, Central America it has a reach history, its people have interesting cultures and the wet forests hide all sorts of treasures. Making it a very interesting region to to see. Central America is sometimes defined as a subcontinent of the Americas, bordered by Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south. Central America it is made up of seven small, mostly tropical countries that have much more in common with South America and Mexico.