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Belize

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

BELIZE

PHYSICAL FEATURES

Belize Barrier Reef and Caribbean Sea

CLIMATE

  • Tropical wet - high humidity and cooling sea breezes
  • Belize has a Marine Conservation and Climate Adaptation program in place to maintain tourism

NATURAL DISASTERS

  • Tropical storms
  • Earthquakes
  • Tropical Storm Harvey 2011

POPULATION

331,900
Photo by Sundve

RELIGION

50% of the population are Catholic

LANGUAGE

English, Spanish, Kriol (Creole)
Photo by jenny downing

CLOTHING

Huipil-elaborate embroidery

ENTERTAINMENT

Football (soccer) cricket basketball the team is the f.f.b.

FOOD

Flour, corn, beans,rice and poultry

MUSIC

Garifuna music

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

  • 3 Mayan groups:
  • Yucatec
  • Mopan
  • Q'eqchi

CULTURAL EVENT

Easter is a week long hoilday

GOVERNMENT

Parliamentery democracy. The President is justice dennus byron

OCCUPATIONS

  • Agriculture,tourism and services
  • Because of the largest reef I world and fishing and water access

CURRENCY

Belize dollor 1.00 usd = 1.99711 bzd

1720 slawes brought to Belize
1871 declared crown colony
1959 Belize and Guatemala sigh border treaty
1973 British Honduras legally changed name Belize
1981 Belize joins un

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