Cayo

Cayo is a district located in the west part of , and it contains the capital, . 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 .
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is the capital of , nearer the geographic center of the country than Belize City. It was established following the massive damage that occurred when Hurricane Hattie struck in 1961.

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is a small town in the Cayo region of , with around 25,000 citizens. , 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.

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is a Maya archaeological site in the Cayo region of . It is a large site with many restored and documented structures, but is in a remote area near the Guatemala border.

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is an archaeological site outside the town of San Jose Succotz, in the Cayo District of .

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, also known locally as ATM, is a cave in , near , Cayo District, notable as a Maya archaeological site that includes skeletons, ceramics, and stoneware.

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Forest Reserve is a in the Cayo District of southern central . It was established in 1944 to protect and manage the native Belizean pine forests.

Cayo

Latitude of center
17° north
Longitude of center
-88.9° or 88° 54′ west
Population
103,000
Elevation
2,152 feet (656 metres)
Geo­Names ID
3582429
Wiki­data ID
Q508773
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Cayo” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ካዮ ወረዳ”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كايو”
  • Asturian: “Cayo”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Cayo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cayo rayonu”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “Cayo District”
  • Hindi: “कायो जिला”
  • Hungarian: “Cayo körzet”
  • 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”
  • Kazakh: “Кайо округі”
  • Kirghiz: “Cayo районы”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Giddoo Cayo”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਯੋ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
  • Persian: “ناحیه کایو”
  • Polish: “Dystrykt Cayo”
  • Portuguese: “Cayo”
  • Portuguese: “Distrito de Cayo”
  • Pushto: “کایو ولسوالۍ”
  • Russian: “Кайо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cayo (okrug)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cayo”
  • Sinhala: “කායෝ දිස්ත්‍රික්කය, බෙලීස්”
  • Sinhala: “කායෝ දිස්ත්‍රික්කය”
  • Slovenian: “BZ-CY”
  • Slovenian: “Cayo”
  • Somali: “Degmada Cayo”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Cayo”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya wa Cayo”
  • Swedish: “Cayo”
  • Tagalog: “Distrito ng Cayo”
  • Tajik: “Ноҳияи Кайо”
  • Tamil: “காயோ மாவட்டம்”
  • Tatar: “Кайо районы”
  • Telugu: “కాయో జిల్లా”
  • Thai: “คาโย”
  • Turkish: “Cayo District”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайо”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Кайо”
  • Urdu: “کایو ضلع”
  • Uzbek: “Cayo tumani”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận Cayo”

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