Encyclopedia > Cayo District

  Article Content

Cayo District

The Cayo District is a district in the west of the nation of Belize. The District capital is the town of San Ignacio Cayo. Also in the Cayo District are the Belizian national capital of Belmopan, the town of Benque Viejo del Carmen, the villages of San Antonio Cayo Valley of Peace, and Spanish Lookout. Cayo District also contains the Pre-Columbian Maya ruins of Xunantunich, Cahal Pech[?], and Caracol.

According to the 2000 census, Cayo District had a population of 53,715 people.

Districts of Belize

External Link

  • Map (http://www.belize.net/html/maps/cayomap.shtml)



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
David McReynolds

... to Charles and Elizabeth McReynolds. In 1951 he joined the Socialist Party of America (SPA) and in 1953 he graduated from UCLA with a degree in Political Science. ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 38 ms