Shipyard
Shipyard, also called Shipyard Colony, is a Mennonite settlement that is also an administrative village in the Orange Walk District of Belize. Shipyard was founded in 1958 by Old Colony Mennonites from Chihuahua and Durango states in Mexico.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sipyardbelize, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 4,000 residents
- Denomination: Mennonite
- Description: town in Orange Walk District, Belize
- Also known as: “Shipyard Colony” and “Shipyard, Belize”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Guinea Grass.
Guinea Grass
Village
Guinea Grass is a village in the Orange Walk District of the nation of Belize. It is 38 metres above sea level. According to the 2000 census, Guinea Grass had a population of 2,510 people, and by 2010 the figures showed a population of 3,500. Guinea Grass is situated 5 miles northeast of Shipyard.
Shipyard
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Orange Walk District, Belize, Central America, North America
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Latitude
17.92157° or 17° 55′ 18″ northLongitude
-88.66357° or 88° 39′ 49″ westPopulation
4,000Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
769HW8CP+JHOpenStreetMap ID
node 1638387020OpenStreetMap feature
place=townOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=mennonite
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Shipyard” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Shipyard”
- Dutch: “Shipyard”
- German: “Shipyard Colony”
- German: “Shipyard”
- Irish: “Shipyard”
- Italian: “Shipyard”
- Japanese: “シップヤード”
- Low German: “Shipyard”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shipyard”
- Norwegian: “Shipyard”
- Polish: “Shipyard”
- Portuguese: “Shipyard”
- Russian: “Шипъярд”
- Spanish: “Shipyard”
- Swedish: “Shipyard”
- Ukrainian: “Шип’ярд”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Shipyard Park and Old Colony Church.
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