Arenal
Arenal is an archaeological site in Cayo, Belize. Arenal is situated nearby to the town Benque Viejo del Carmen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Arenal
Residential area
Arenal is a village in the Cayo District of central interior Belize. It is part of the Cayo West constituency. The village is in an agricultural region with the most frequent crops being citrus and banana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melchor de Mencos and Benque Viejo del Carmen.
Melchor de Mencos
Photo: Rudy Canales, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Melchor de Mencos is in Guatemala on the border with Belize and is usually a place that most travelers merely pass through, but it does have some stelae and zoomorphs in a square not far away.
Benque Viejo del Carmen
Town
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Benque Viejo del Carmen is the westernmost town in Belize, 130 km by road west and south of Belize City, at the Guatemalan border. San Ignacio lies 13 km to the east and Melchor de Mencos just across the border. Benque Viejo del Carmen is situated 3½ miles north of Arenal.
Arenal
- Type: Archaeological site
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Cayo, Belize, Central America, North America
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Latitude
17.02382° or 17° 1′ 26″ northLongitude
-89.14987° or 89° 8′ 60″ westElevation
344 feet (105 metres)Open location code
769G2VF2+G3GeoNames ID
3582743
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