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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 . 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