Arenal
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.- Type: Residential area
- Description: human settlement in Belize
- Also known as: “Arenal (Belize)” and “Arenal, Belize”
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
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
- Categories: rural settlement and village
- Location: Cayo, Belize, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.02323° or 17° 1′ 24″ northLongitude
-89.14996° or 89° 8′ 60″ westPopulation
945Open location code
769G2VF2+72OpenStreetMap ID
way 602799264OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialWikidata ID
Q60375683
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Arenal” goes by many names.
- French: “Arenal”
- Low German: “Arenal”
- Spanish: “Arenal (Belice)”
- “Arenal”
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