Belize Archives Department


This local history collection is mainly a reading room and research facility with computers for public use. You can stop by and chat with the researchers on anything to do with Belizean history.


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2. Guanacaste National Park

1.4 MILES

Belize's smallest national park was declared in 1990 and is named for the giant guanacaste tree on its southwestern edge. The tree survived the axes of…

3. St Herman's Blue Hole National Park

8.54 MILES

The 575-acre St Herman's Blue Hole National Park contains St Herman's Cave, one of the few caves in Belize that you can visit without a guide. The…

5. Barton Creek Cave

14.2 MILES

Barton Creek rises high in the Mountain Pine Ridge and flows north to join the Belize River near Georgeville. Along the way it dips underground for a…

6. Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

15.07 MILES

A natural, privately protected area just off one of the country's main highways, this 1070-acre wildlife sanctuary and environmental education center…

7. Belize Zoo

15.83 MILES

If most zoos are maximum-security wildlife prisons, then the Belize Zoo is more like a halfway house for wild animals that can't make it on the outside. A…

8. Thousand Foot Falls

17.43 MILES

Ten miles off Chiquibul Rd, the Thousand Foot Falls are reckoned to be the highest in Central America, a ribbon of water cascading down a mountainside…

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