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National Park 33 Reef Coastal R Gales Atoll Teakettle • BELMOPAN Point Wildlife Half Moon Caye ATM Cave Sanctuary Long Caye oad Alligator Caye Gales Point 42 •Georgeville • 37 Barton 38 40 Caye Bokel Creek Cave San Ignacio• Blue Hole & 41 St. Herman’s Cave Xunantunich 43 44 Southern Long Caye Cahal Benque Viejo• Pech 39 Billy Barquadier Rio On Pools Hummingbird Hwy Waterfalls CARIBBEAN to TIKAL Thousand Foot •Middlesex Augustine Falls • . •Pomona 56 SEA Rio Frio Cave Davis Falls Stann •Dangriga Tobacco Caye Man-o-War Cree k Caye Dist ric t Glovers • Hopkins 23 Serpon C a y o Sugar •Sittee River Reef Mayflower Mill South Water Caye District 51 52 57 62 63 Carrie Bow Caye Atoll Caracol . Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary outhern Hwy S Guatemala •Seine Bight Independence• •Placencia Gladden Split 27 45 46 47 Laughing Bird Caye Silk Caye Mexico 48 49 53 54 Tole d o 55 58 59 60 Dis t r i c t •Monkey River Nim Li Punit Lubaantun Belze a Uxbenka San Antonio •San Pedro al • Columbia m Caribbean Rio Blanco e Pueblo Viejo National Park Sea • at Blue Creek Sapodilla Cayes u • G •Jalacte 50 United States 61 Hunting Caye San Benito Honduras Poite• •Punta Gorda Legend Pusilha City / Town / Capital Maya Site Mexico •Barranco Highway / Road River Reef Belze Int’l Airport Dive Site Water Taxi © 2020 BELIZE HOTEL ASSOCIATION Livingston• Point of Interest Design & Production: Birdwatching Cubola Productions & Yellowtail Creative This map is for informational purposes only and is not Puerto Barrios Marine Reserve intended for navigational purposes. It may not be reproduced • without the permission of the BHA or its designers. Guatemala •Puerto Cortés Protected Area Photos & Images © Belize Tourism Board BELIZEHOTELS.ORG QUICK FACTS BELIZE CITY & NORTHERN BELIZE SOUTHERN BELIZE PLAN THE PERFECT VACATION WITH US Belcove Hotel La Milpa Lodge & Research Center Banana Bank Lodge Jaguar Creek Belize 1 36 40 belcove.com pfbelize.org bananabank.com jaguarcreek.org Regent St. West, Belize City Rio Bravo Conserv. & Mgmt. Area Mile 49 George Price Hwy., Mile 42 Hummingbird Hwy. T: (+501) 227-3054 Orange Walk Belmopan T: (+501) 610-2034 E: [email protected] 1 Eyre St., Belize City 7 T: (+501) 832-2020 E: [email protected] T: (+501) 615-3900 / 227-5616 E: [email protected] Best Western Plus 2 Ka’ana Resort and Spa Belize Biltmore Plaza E: [email protected] 41 Cassia Hill Resort kaanabelize.com belizebiltmore.com 37 3.5 Mls Philip Gldsn Hwy., Belize City North Park Hotel 8 cassiahillbelize.com Mile 69 ¼ George Price Highway T: (+501) 223-2302 northparkbelize.com 68 Mls. George Price Hwy. San Ignacio, Cayo E: [email protected] 18 North Park Street, Belize City San Ignacio, Cayo T: 501-824-3350 T: (+501) 223-2607 T: (+501) 610-1100 E: [email protected] Bird’s Eye View Lodge 3 E:[email protected] E: [email protected] birdseyeviewbelize.com San Ignacio Resort Hotel 42 Crooked Tree Village, Belize Dist. Radisson Fort George Hotel & Marina Caves Branch Adventure sanignaciobelize.com Co. & Jungle Lodge 38 T: (+501) 203-2040 / 235-7333 radissonhotels.com 18 Buena Vista Street, San Ignacio E: [email protected] 9 cavesbranch.com T: (+501) 824-2034 2 Marine Parade, Belize City, Belize 4 Mile 41.5 Hummingbird Hwy. E: [email protected] T: (+501) 223-3333 Cataleya’s Guest House Belmopan, Cayo cataleyasguesthousebz.com E: [email protected] T: (+501) 610-3451 Sweet Songs Jungle Lodge 43 1257 Rainbow Runner, Vista Del Mar E: [email protected] sweetsongslodge.com Ramada Belize City Princess Hotel The picturesque Hummingbird Highway snakes across Ladyville, Belize City Chial Road, San Ignacio, Belize Country Size: 8,867 square miles, including 266 square Belize City and Northern Belize offer spectacular T: ramada.com (+501) 225-4072 Hidden Valley Inn T: (+501) 824-3101 E: [email protected] 29 Newtown Barracks 10 39 miles of offshore cayes. treasures to discover. Experience the amazing Maya the Maya Mountains leading visitors from Belmopan, hiddenvalleyinn.com E: [email protected] Kings Park, Belize City 4 Cooma Cairn Rd., the capital of Belize, to the towns of Dangriga, Hopkins, Chan Chich Lodge T: (+501) 223-2670 / 223-2671 Climate: The climate is subtropical with prevailing archaeological sites: Lamanai, set alongside the 5 Mountain Pine Ridge The Lodge at Chaa Creek chanchich.com E: [email protected] 44 winds from the Caribbean Sea. The annual temperature New River Lagoon, or Cerros perched above the Placencia and Punta Gorda. The vibrant local cultures of Gallon Jug, Orange Walk T: (+501) 822-3320 chaacreek.com Intl: (866) 443-3364 #77 Burns Avenue, San Ignacio 1 King St, Belize City The Alexander Belize averages 27° Celsius or 80° Fahrenheit. azure waters of Corozal Bay. Many animals, including the Maya and the Garifuna are alive with rich traditions T: (+501) 227-7031 / 223-4419 E: [email protected] T: (+501) 824-2037 1886 Driftwood Bay, Belize City 11 Intl: (877) 279-5726 E: [email protected] T: Government: An independent country since 1981, with jaguars, crocodiles and storks, inhabit the river banks in this part of Belize. This is also home to the world’s E: [email protected] 501-610-1072 E: [email protected] a democratically elected parliamentary government, and lush forests of northern Belize, and the country is a first Jaguar Reserve, the intricate Maya architecture of Hill Bank Field Station 6 The Great House Inn pfbelize.org A Belizean Nirvana Miramar Apartments Belize is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. birdwatcher’s paradise, with over 570 recorded species. Lubantuun and over five offshore marine protected areas. greathousebelize.com 12 Rio Bravo Conserv. & Mgmt. Area belizeanirvana.com 45 miramarbelize.com 55 Population: The population of approximately 370,000 is 1 Eyre St, Belize City 13 Cork St., Belize City Westby Way, Placencia Placencia Village, Stann Creek T: (+501) 227-1020 / 227-5616 T: (+501) 223-3400 or 1-214-613-9296 T: (+501) 523-3331 / 636-4833 T: (+501) 523-3658 made up of diverse ethnicities including Creole, Garifuna, Tour Belize City, the commercial hub, and view Dangriga is a great choice for experiencing the music, E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] E: [email protected] stunning historical artifacts at the Belize Museum, visit art and rich traditional Garifuna way of life before Mestizo, Spanish, Maya, English, Mennonite, Lebanese, Belize Ocean Club Pelican Beach Resort (Dangriga) the old downtown area, the historic St. Johns Anglican exploring the islands offshore. The quiet fishing village belizeoceanclub.com 46 pelicanbeachbelize.com Chinese and East Indian. Banana Beach Resort Maya Beach, Placencia Dangriga 13 Portofino Beach Resort 25 56 Languages: The official language is English; however, Cathedral, and the House of Culture. of Hopkins further down the coast offers sandy beaches bananabeach.com portofino.bz T: (800) 997-1289 T: (+501) 522-2044 / 522-2570 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] and a range of visitor services. Placencia has become a Seagrape Dr., San Pedro, A.C. 6 Miles North of San Pedro, A.C other languages, including Kriol and Spanish are widely T/F: (+501) 226-3890 T: (+501) 226-5096 / 678-5096 Intl: (877) 288-1011 Caribbean Beach Cabanas Sieri Del Mar E: [email protected] spoken. Other languages include Maya (Mopan, WESTERN BELIZE thriving tourism center as a quaint seaside village with E: [email protected] caribbeanbeachcabanas.com 47 seiridelmar.com 57 The Placencia Sidewalk, Placencia North Road, Hopkins a local flair, while the peninsula offers modern resorts, Ramon’s Village Resort Kekchi and Yucatec), Garifuna, German (spoken by Banyan Bay Suites 14 26 T: (+501) 622-4142 T: (+501) 532-4592 vacation rentals and condominiums. Punta Gorda is the banyanbay.com ramons.com E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Mennonites) and Mandarin. 100 Seagrape Dr., San Pedro, A.C. Coconut Dr., San Pedro, A.C. Casa Palma Sirenian Bay Resort & Villas Time Zone: Belize´s time zone is GMT-6 (US Central gateway to lush rainforest, Maya villages, waterfalls, T: (+501) 226-3739 T: (+501) 226-2071 58 Intl: (866) 352-1163 E: [email protected] casapalmaplacencia.com 48 sirenianbay.com rivers, Maya sites, extensive cave systems, and E: [email protected] Placencia Village, Stann Creek Mile 17.5 Placencia Road, Standard Time). Daylight saving is not observed. T: (+501) 580-4662 Surfside, Seine Bight Ray Caye Resort 27 Currency: The Belize dollar has a fixed exchange rate numerous national parks and protected areas teeming Bella Vista Resort 15 E: [email protected] T: (+501)614-2010 bvrbelize.com raycaye.com E: [email protected] to the US dollar (BZ$2=US$1).
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