Cayo
Cayo is a district located in the west part of Belize, and it contains the capital, Belmopan. It is the most extensive, second-most populous and third-most densely populated of the six districts of Belize. The district's capital is the town of San Ignacio.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Belmopan and San Ignacio.
Belmopan
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Belmopan is the capital of Belize, nearer the geographic center of the country than Belize City. It was established following the massive damage that occurred when Hurricane Hattie struck Belize City in 1961.
San Ignacio
San Ignacio is a small town in the Cayo region of Belize, with around 25,000 citizens. San Ignacio, or Cayo as it is called, is on the Macal river, and makes a good and affordable base for exploration of the stunning regions around it, with plenty of day trips to be taken and several decent tour guides willing to take you.
Caracol
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Caracol is a large ancient Maya archaeological site, located in what is now the Cayo District of Belize. It is situated approximately 40 kilometres south of Xunantunich, and the town of San Ignacio, and 15 km from the Macal River.
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Xunantunich
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Xunantunich is an archaeological site outside the town of San Jose Succotz, in the Cayo District of Belize.
Actun Tunichil Muknal
Actun Tunichil Muknal, also known locally as ATM, is a cave in Belize, near San Ignacio, Cayo District, notable as a Maya archaeological site that includes skeletons, ceramics, and stoneware.
Mountain Pine Ridge
Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve is a protected area in the Cayo District of southern central Belize. It was established in 1944 to protect and manage the native Belizean pine forests.
Cayo
- Type: district of Belize with 103,000 residents
- Description: district of Belize
- Also known as: “Cayo District”, “Distrito del Cayo”, and “Western District”
- Neighbors: Belize District, Melchor de Mencos, Stann Creek, and Toledo
- Location: Belize, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Cayo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كايو”
- Asturian: “Cayo”
- Asturian: “distritu de Cayo”
- Bengali: “কায়ো জেলা”
- Bulgarian: “Кайо”
- Catalan: “districte de Cayo”
- Catalan: “Districte de Cayo”
- Cebuano: “Cayo District”
- Chinese: “Cayo Khu”
- Chinese: “卡約區”
- Chinese: “卡约”
- Chinese: “卡约区”
- Croatian: “Cayo (okrug)”
- Croatian: “Cayo”
- Danish: “Cayo”
- Dutch: “Cayo District”
- Dutch: “Cayo”
- Esperanto: “Cayo”
- Finnish: “Cayo”
- Finnish: “Cayon kaupunginosa”
- Finnish: “Cayonin alue”
- French: “Cayo”
- French: “District de Cayo”
- Galician: “Distrito de Cayo”
- German: “BZ-CY”
- German: “Cayo District”
- German: “Cayo”
- Greek: “Κάγιο”
- Gujarati: “કેયો જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “कायो जिला”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Cayo”
- Italian: “Cayo”
- Italian: “distretto di Cayo”
- Italian: “Distretto di Cayo”
- Japanese: “カヨ州”
- Japanese: “カヨ郡”
- Javanese: “Distrik Cayo”
- Kannada: “ಕಯೋ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Korean: “카요구”
- Ladino: “Cayo”
- Latvian: “Kajo distrikts”
- Lithuanian: “Kajo rajonas”
- Low German: “Cayo”
- Low German: “Distrikt Cayo”
- Malay: “Cayo District”
- Marathi: “काओ जिल्हा”
- Marathi: “कायो जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cayo Khu”
- Northern Frisian: “Cayo”
- Northern Sami: “Cayo (guovlu)”
- Northern Sami: “Cayo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cayo”
- Norwegian: “Cayo”
- Persian: “ناحیه کایو”
- Polish: “Dystrykt Cayo”
- Portuguese: “Cayo”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Cayo”
- Russian: “Кайо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cayo (okrug)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cayo”
- Sinhala: “කායෝ දිස්ත්රික්කය, බෙලීස්”
- Sinhala: “කායෝ දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Slovenian: “BZ-CY”
- Slovenian: “Cayo”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Cayo”
- Swedish: “Cayo”
- Tagalog: “Distrito ng Cayo”
- Tamil: “காயோ மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “కాయో జిల్లా”
- Thai: “คาโย”
- Turkish: “Cayo District”
- Ukrainian: “Кайо”
- Ukrainian: “Район Кайо”
- Urdu: “کایو ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Cayo”
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