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About Belize
Some facts about Belize, from Global Road Warrior:
- "Belize is located in Central America between Guatemala and the southern end of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The northern half of the country is predominantly limestone lowlands and swampland, while the southern part includes the Maya Mountains, the country’s highland region. Doyle’s Delight is the country’s highest point at 1,124 meters (3,688 feet) tall. A substantial portion of Belize is covered in thick jungle, much of it protected."
- "Belize has more Spanish speakers—almost half the population—than those speaking Creole or English, although English is the country’s official language. Most Spanish speakers are bilingual and also speak English."
- "Wildlife in Belize is abundant and diverse and includes puma, American crocodile, tapir, black howler, and other species of monkeys. Additionally, manatees and numerous types of tortoises, birds, reptiles, fish, and insects thrive in Belize. Most of the country is covered in forest, with more than 50 different tree species that include cedar, mahogany, ironwood, palmetto palms, sapodilla, and mangrove."
- Read much more about Belize in Global Road Warrior!
Books and other sources about Belize
Belize: Ecotourism in Action by Call Number: 972.82 C989ISBN: 9780333773291Publication Date: 2002-03-01Still unscathed by mass tourism, this friendly and stable Central American country is attracting growing numbers of ecologically-minded travellers.- Becoming Creole byCall Number: eBookISBN: 9780813597003Publication Date: 2018-11-01Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their relationships with the natural world, and it shows how those relationships are also always embedded in processes of racialization that create blackness, brownness, and whiteness. Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean Creole peoples' relationships with the plants, animals, water, and soils around them, and analyzes how these relationships intersect with transnational racial assemblages. She provides a sustained analysis of how processes of racialization are always present in the entanglements between people and the non-human worlds in which they live.
Films available to stream:
- Documentary: Play, Jankunu Play - The Garifuna Wanaragua Ritual of BelizeThe Garifuna are a Central American people of West African and Native American descent. One of their most popular rituals is wanaragua, a three-fold system of masked Christmas processionals commonly called Jankunú. This ritual is a unique blend of African, European, and Native American (Arawak and Carib) art traditions in which social and cultural identities are expressed through music, dance, and costume.
- Documentary: Treasure of the CaribbeanThe year is 2013, in the waters of Belize and Guatemala. A fisherman guns his small boat into the open ocean in search of fish. With engine trouble, the fisherman peers over the side of his boat. Below is an uncharted, massive crown of rocks and corals, teeming with life. The discovery marks a new chapter in understanding corals and fish that need each other and in saving reefs globally.
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