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Doyle's Delight is the highest peak in Belize at 1,124 m (3,688 ft). It lies on the Maya Divide, the main ridge line of the Maya Mountains in southwestern Belize.. The name Doyle's Delight was first coined by Sharon Matola in a 1989 report.
The mountains rise to heights of about 1,100 metres, [2] with the highest point being Doyle's Delight (1,124 m) in the Cockscomb Range, a spur of the Maya Mountains in Western Belize. [citation needed] Covered with shallow, highly erodible soils of low fertility, these heavily forested highlands are very sparsely inhabited. [2]
The Seven Summits consist of the highest mountain peak on each of the continents. Different lists include slight variations, but generally, the same core is maintained. The seven summits depend on the definition used for a continent – in particular the location of the border of that continent. This results in two major points of variation.
Of the 20 most prominent summits of the Caribbean, only Pico Duarte exceeds 3000 meters (9843 feet) of topographic prominence. Four peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), seven peaks are ultra-prominent summits with at least 1500 meters (4921 feet), and 13 peaks exceed 1000 meters (3281 feet) of topographic prominence.
In 2021, the World Economic Forum ranked Belize 90th out of 156 countries in its Global Gender Gap Report. Of all the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Belize ranked fourth from last. It ranked higher in the categories of "economic participation and opportunity" and "health and survival", but very low in "political empowerment". [168]
The following sortable table comprises the seven ultra-prominent summits on the islands of the Caribbean Sea. Each of these peaks has at least 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence . Five of these peaks rise on the island of Hispaniola (three in the Dominican Republic , and two in Haiti ) and one each on Jamaica and Cuba .
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Unauthorised farming and resource extraction by Guatemalans have been identified as a significant threats to Belize's protected areas bordering Peten. [19] For instance, in 2008 an estimated 1,000–1,500 xateros i.e. fishtail palm foragers were operating in the region, and by 2011 some 13,500–20,000 acres had been cleared for various agricultural activities, thereby severing the ...