The Laptev Sea, into which the Lena River empties, helps keep the temperature of the world's northernmost regions regulated, through large blocks of ice that from from the Lena's outflow and then break off when the temperature rises at the river's mouth, drifting off to cool.
The Independence of Haiti (1804) Contenidos Adicicionales. Since the late 17th Century, the French holds the western part of Saint-Domingues Island, Hispaniola. A century later, sugar cane production makes Haiti one of the current most prosperous colonies of the Caribbean, thanks to the new independent United States.
In El Salvador the independence movement was launched on November 5, 1811 be priest JosÃ© MatÃ­as Delgado. The leaders of the movement were arrested and sentenced to jail, but finally El Salvador, along with territories of Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica declared independence from Spain on September 15, 1821.