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Nr. 1) Island Capital Area (km²) Population (Census 2012 official) District 1000: Ambergris Group: San Pedro: 76.8: 13400: Inner Islands 1001: Ambergris Caye, in the far northeast, is the largest island in the country.
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.
Douglas Caye (West) Nautical map of Turneffe Islands. Turneffe Atoll is located southeast of Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker, off the coast of Belize in Central America, 20 miles (32 kilometres) from Belize City. It is one of three atolls of the Belize Barrier Reef, along with Glover's Reef and Lighthouse Reef.
Ambergris Caye (/ æ m ˈ b ɜːr ɡ r ɪ s ˈ k iː / am-BUR-gris KEE; Spanish: Cayo Ambergris), is the largest island of Belize, located northeast of the country's mainland, in the Caribbean Sea. It is about 40 kilometres (25 mi) long from north to south, and about 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) wide.
A 1.2m ha site off the coast of Belize, comprising the nation’s offshore and barrier islands, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of several resident, passage or breeding bird species, including white-crowned pigeons, red-footed boobies, roseate terns, Yucatan vireos, black catbirds, and golden-winged and ...
Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts is set to turn Caye Chapel – a private island off the coast of Belize, in Central America – into a luxury club community with residences, estates, a five-star ...
OpenStreetMap map of Belize, showing landcover, protected areas, major cities and administrative divisions. Belize is on the Caribbean coast of northern Central America. It shares a border on the north with the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, on the west with the Guatemalan department of Petén, and on the south with the Guatemalan department of ...
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