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Belize has a total of 18 major river catchments with another 16 sub-catchments which drain the Maya Mountains and discharge into the Caribbean Sea. Sixteen principal watersheds have been identified which are roughly grouped into six main watershed regions based on general characteristics of topography, geology, soils, rainfall and land use. The ...
Rivers of Belize / rivers of Strahler orders 4 and 5 labelled / via WWF and Natural Earth base maps These are the main rivers of Belize . Belize has a total of 35 major and minor river catchments or watersheds which drain into the Caribbean Sea .
The oceans drain approximately 83% of the land in the world. The other 17% – an area larger than the basin of the Arctic Ocean – drains to internal endorheic basins. There are also substantial areas of the world that do not "drain" in the commonly understood sense.
"Cameroon Crater Lakes", World Wildlife Fund ; Australia; Eurasia "Freshwater Fishes of Iran: Drainage Basins" North America "Watersheds" map in the North American Atlas; Ricketts, Taylor H., Eric Dinerstein, David M. Olson, Colby J. Loucks, et al. (1999). Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: a Conservation Assessment. Island Press ...
Many coral reefs, cays, and islands to the east—such as Ambergris Caye, Lighthouse Reef, Glover's Reef, and the Turneffe Islands—are part of Belize's territory, forming the Belize Barrier Reef, the longest in the western hemisphere stemming approximately 322 km (200 mi) and the second longest in the world after the Great Barrier Reef.
Monkey River is a coastal watercourse in southern Belize that rises in the Maya Mountains and discharges to the Caribbean Sea near Monkey River Town. One of Belize's major rivers, Monkey River has northern headwaters which originate in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, where the Swasey Branch drains the East Basin of that wildlife sanctuary
Rivers of Belize (3 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Bodies of water of Belize" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. G.
Regional map of Belize, with Dangriga in Stann Creek District depicted. Dangriga Belize is a southeastern coastal town in the Stann Creek District, one of Belize’s six districts. [142] This area is heavily populated by the Garinagu as a result of deportation from the island St. Vincent in the eighteenth century.