This local history collection is mainly a reading room and research facility with computers for public use. You can stop by and chat with the researchers on anything to do with Belizean history.
Belize Archives Department
Belmopan
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
27.04 MILES
Set on a leveled hilltop, Xunantunich (shoo-nahn-too-neech) is one of Belize's most easily accessible and impressive Maya archaeological sites. Getting…
15.83 MILES
If most zoos are maximum-security wildlife prisons, then the Belize Zoo is more like a halfway house for wild animals that can't make it on the outside. A…
Green Iguana Conservation Project
20.97 MILES
On the lush Macal Valley grounds of the San Ignacio Resort Hotel, this excellent program collects and hatches iguana eggs, raising the reptiles until they…
25.89 MILES
Since 1985, more than 200 landowners in seven villages northwest of Belize City have signed pledges to preserve the habitat of the black howler monkey,…
14.2 MILES
Barton Creek rises high in the Mountain Pine Ridge and flows north to join the Belize River near Georgeville. Along the way it dips underground for a…
21.52 MILES
High atop a hill about a mile south of San Ignacio, Cahal Pech is the oldest-known Maya site in the Belize River valley, having been first settled between…
15.07 MILES
A natural, privately protected area just off one of the country's main highways, this 1070-acre wildlife sanctuary and environmental education center…
25.91 MILES
In a newly constructed building, CBS Museum & Visitor's Center has a number of good exhibits and displays on the black howler, other Belizean wildlife and…
Nearby Belmopan attractions
1. George Price Center for Peace & Development
0.66 MILES
This museum and conference center celebrates the life of Belize's beloved statesman and first prime minister after independence, George Price, who died in…
1.4 MILES
Belize's smallest national park was declared in 1990 and is named for the giant guanacaste tree on its southwestern edge. The tree survived the axes of…
3. St Herman's Blue Hole National Park
8.54 MILES
The 575-acre St Herman's Blue Hole National Park contains St Herman's Cave, one of the few caves in Belize that you can visit without a guide. The…
4. Tapir Mountain Nature Reserve
13.35 MILES
This 6500-acre nature reserve includes the Actun Tunichil Muknal cave.
14.2 MILES
Barton Creek rises high in the Mountain Pine Ridge and flows north to join the Belize River near Georgeville. Along the way it dips underground for a…
6. Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
15.07 MILES
A natural, privately protected area just off one of the country's main highways, this 1070-acre wildlife sanctuary and environmental education center…
15.83 MILES
If most zoos are maximum-security wildlife prisons, then the Belize Zoo is more like a halfway house for wild animals that can't make it on the outside. A…
17.43 MILES
Ten miles off Chiquibul Rd, the Thousand Foot Falls are reckoned to be the highest in Central America, a ribbon of water cascading down a mountainside…