Benque House of Culture

Benque House of Culture is a museum in Cayo, Belize. Benque House of Culture is situated nearby to the church Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, as well as near Benque Police Station.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Xunantunich.

Xunantunich

Photo: Thomas Shahan, CC BY 2.0.

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Benque Viejo del Carmen and Melchor de Mencos.

Benque Viejo del Carmen, usually shortened to Benque Viejo or simply Benque, is a small border town in the Cayo District of western Belize. It lies along the Mopan River only a short distance from the international border with Guatemala and about 13 km west of San Ignacio.

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.

Calla Creek

Village

Calla Creek is a village in the Cayo District of central interior Belize. It is situated along the Mopan River near the border with Guatemala. The village is in an agricultural region with the most frequent crops being citrus and banana. Calla Creek is situated 3½ miles north of Benque House of Culture.

Benque House of Culture

Type: Museum
Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Cayo, Belize, Central America, North America
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Latitude

17.0728° or 17° 4′ 22″ north

Longitude

-89.14034° or 89° 8′ 25″ west

Operator

NICH

Open location code

769G3VF5+4V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 377503570

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Benque Police Station.

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