Archaeological Sites in Belize
City/town/settlement in Belize (14)
Baking Pot
Baking Pot is a Maya archaeological site located in the Belize River Valley on the southern bank of the river, northeast of modern-day town of San Ignacio in the Cayo District of…
Chaa Creek
Chaa Creek is a tributary of the Macal River in the Cayo District in western Belize. It is near the site of an ancient Maya settlement. Initial investigation and surveying of the…
Colha
Colha is a Maya archaeological site in northern Belize, about 52 km north of Belize City near Orange Walk. One of the earliest Maya settlements, it was occupied from the Early…
El Pilar
El Pilar is an ancient Maya city center on the Belize-Guatemala border, 12 km north of San Ignacio. Its name, Spanish for "watering basin," reflects abundant streams around the…
KaʼKabish
KaʼKabish is in Belize's Orange Walk District, near Lamanai, El Pozito, and Blue Creek.
La Milpa
La Milpa is an archaeological site and an ancient Maya city within the Three River region of Northwest Belize bordering Mexico and Guatemala. La Milpa is located between the sites…
Louisville
A Maya archaeological site in the Corozal District of northern Belize, occupied from approximately 400 BC to 950 AD. The site contains substantial artificial mounds representing…
Marco Gonzalez Archaeological Reserve
Marco Gonzalez is a Maya archaeological site on Ambergris Caye, Belize. The site contains at least 49 structures, including low platforms and walls. This coastal settlement lacks…
Minanha
Minanha is a Maya archaeological site on the North Vaca Plateau of west-central Belize, at the nexus of the Belize River Valley, Mountain Pine Ridge, and Guatemala's Peten…
Pusilha
Pusilha is a Late Classic Maya archaeological site in Belize. Located along major east-west trade routes, it served as a key transfer point for regional economic activity.…
San Estevan
The San Estevan archaeological site is located in northern Belize 1 km from the modern community of San Estevan. The site is a Maya civilization site occupied during the Formative…
Santa Rita
Santa Rita is a Maya ruin and an archaeological reserve on the outskirts of Corozal. Historical evidence suggests that it was probably the ancient and important Maya city known as…
Tipu
Tipu is a Maya archaeological site along the Macal River in western Belize near the Guatemala border, occupied from 300 BC to AD 1707. It served as a major Maya political center…
Uxbenka
Uxbenka is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site located in Belize's southernmost district of Toledo. Uxbenka rose shortly after the expansion of another Maya site,…
Pyramid complex in Belize (9)
Altun Ha
Altun Ha is the name given to the ruins of an ancient Maya city in Belize, located in the Belize District about 50 kilometres north of Belize City and about 10 kilometres west of…
Cahal Pech
Cahal Pech is a Maya site located near the town of San Ignacio in the Cayo District of Belize. The site rests high above the banks of the Macal River and is strategically located…
Caracol Natural Monument Reservation
Caracol is the largest Maya archaeological site in Belize, first occupied around 1200 BC with its epicentre settled by 650 BC. At its peak around AD 650, the city covered an area…
Cerros
Cerros is an Eastern Lowland Maya archaeological site in northern Belize that functioned from the Late Preclassic to the Postclassic period. The site reached its apogee during the…
Lubaantun Archaeological Reserve
Lubaantun is a pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization in southern Belize, Central America. Lubaantun is in Belize's Toledo District, about 42 kilometres northwest of…
Nim Li Punit
Nim Li Punit is a Maya Classic Period site in the Toledo District of the nation of Belize, located 50 kilometres north of the town of Punta Gorda. Nim Li Punit is sometimes known…
Nohmul
Nohmul is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located on the eastern Yucatán Peninsula, in what is today northern Belize. The site included a large pyramid, about 17 meters…
Xunantunich
Xunantunich is an ancient Maya archaeological site in western Belize, about 70 miles west of Belize City, in the Cayo District. Xunantunich is located atop a ridge above the Mopan…
Xunantunich Mayan Ruins
Xunantunich is an ancient Maya archaeological site in western Belize, situated atop a ridge above the Mopan River in the Cayo District, approximately 70 miles west of Belize City…
Cave Structures in Belize (2)
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,…
Barton Creek Cave
Barton Creek Cave is a natural cave in Belize. It is located in the upper Barton Creek area near San Ignacio in the Cayo District. Barton Creek Cave is a primarily single-passage…
Temple complex in Belize (2)
Kʼaxob
Kʼaxob is a Maya archaeological site in Belize occupied from about 800 BC to AD 900. The site began as a village and expanded significantly during the Early to Late Classic…
Lamanai Archaeological Reserve
Lamanai is a Maya temple complex in Belize with one of the longest continuous occupations in the Maya world, spanning roughly 3,000 years from the Early Preclassic period (c. 3000…
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