Big Creek
Port of Big Creek is the only deep-water port facility on the in Country of Belize, constructed in the 1990s. It is the nation's largest private port, after Belize City.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Belizian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: place in Toledo District, Belize
- Also known as: “Big Creek, Belize”, “Cala Grande”, and “Hercules”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Big Creek Airport and Michael Ashcroft Stadium.
Big Creek Airport
Aerodrome
Big Creek Airport is an airport serving Big Creek, a sea port in the Toledo District of Belize.
Michael Ashcroft Stadium
Stadium
Michael Ashcroft Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Independence, Belize. It is currently used mostly for football matches and was the home stadium to Boca F.C. and Sagitun Football Club in the Belize Premier Football League of the Football Federation of Belize. Michael Ashcroft Stadium is situated 1½ miles northwest of Big Creek.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Placencia and Seine Bight.
Placencia
Photo: nagy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Placencia is a tourist village of about 1600 people at the southern tip of the resort Placencia peninsula in Belize. It offers tourist bars, kayaking, snorkelling, diving, saltwater fly fishing, and whale shark watching.
Seine Bight
Seine Bight is a village on the Placencia Peninsula located in the Stann Creek District of Belize. It is located 2+1⁄2 miles south of Maya Beach Village and North of the village of Placencia.Placencia Peninsula
Placencia is a long, narrow peninsula – almost an island – along the Caribbean coastline of Belize. However, if you are an outdoor nature enthusiast, looking for beautiful sunsets, 25 km of barrier reef off the coast, outstanding local cuisine, all in a lush, relatively raw, natural and untouched state, you may have found your paradise.
Big Creek
- Categories: deep water port, seaport, and locality
- Location: Stann Creek, Belize, Central America, North America
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Latitude
16.5183° or 16° 31′ 6″ northLongitude
-88.40505° or 88° 24′ 18″ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)IATA airport code
BGKUnited Nations Location Code
BZ BGKOpen location code
768HGH9V+8XOpenStreetMap ID
node 11660065458OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Big Creek” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Puertu de Big Creek”
- Chinese: “大溪 (伯利茲)”
- Chinese: “大溪 (貝里斯)”
- Chinese: “大溪”
- French: “Big Creek”
- German: “Big Creek (Belize)”
- German: “Big Creek”
- Japanese: “ビッグ・クリーク (ベリーズ)”
- Low German: “Big Creek (Belize)”
- Low German: “Big Creek”
- Spanish: “Puerto de Big Creek”
- Urdu: “بگ کریک، بیلیز”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Malacate Beach and Independence.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mt. Zion Baptist Church Ministries and Independence Post Office.
Stann Creek: Must-Visit Destinations
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Big Creek”. Photo: Belizian, CC BY-SA 3.0.