Sarteneja
Sarteneja is the largest fishing community and the second largest village in Belize. It recorded a population of 3,500 according to a 2016 estimate. The name Sarteneja is a Castilian distortion of its original Mayan name Tza-ten-a-ha, which means 'water between the rocks'.
- Type: Village with 1,820 residents
- Description: village in the Corozal District of Belize
- Also known as: “Santeneja”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sarteneja Airport.
Sarteneja Airport
Aerodrome
Sarteneja Airport is an airport serving Sarteneja, a town in the Corozal District in northern Belize. The airport is just east of the town, which is on Chetumal Bay.
Sarteneja
- Category: locality
- Location: Corozal District, Northern Belize, Belize, Central America, North America
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Latitude
18.3533° or 18° 21′ 12″ north
Longitude
-88.1452° or 88° 8′ 43″ west
Population
1,820
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
IATA airport code
SJX
United Nations Location Code
BZ SJX
Open location code
76CH9V33+8W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Sarteneja” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sarteneja”
- Dutch: “Sarteneja”
- French: “Sarteneja”
- German: “Sarteneja”
- Irish: “Sarteneja”
- Italian: “Sarteneja”
- Japanese: “サルタネハ”
- Low German: “Sarteneja”
- Polish: “Sarteneja”
- Portuguese: “Sarteneja”
- Russian: “Сартенея”
- Spanish: “Sarteneja”
- Swedish: “Sarteneja”
- Ukrainian: “Сартенея”
- “Sarteneja”
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