Confederation of Central America

The Confederation of Central America (Spanish: La Confederación de Centroamérica), was an attempt at unifying Central America. It first was a loose confederation of multiple Central American republics, created in 1842 to revive the Federal Republic of Central America, which had fallen in 1841,.

It was one of many failed attempts to re-unify Central America after the initial federation, and like the others, it fell in a couple of years due to instability.

The confederation appointed Antonio José Cañas as its ruler with the title of supreme delegate, but each state retained its own head of state, and the effective authority of this office was practically nonexistent.

Fruto Chamorro Pérez was the last supreme delegate of the Confederation, which effectively dissolved in mid-1845 due to rivalries caused by conservative and liberal governments in each of the member states.

The Confederation bordered Mexico to the north and west, the Mosquito Kingdom and British Honduras to the east, and the Republic of New Granada to the south. After the Federal Republic of Central America had broken up into many republics, namely El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, the region was still unstable. The Confederation lasted 3 years, from 1842-1845.