Begin your investigation of Belize's multicultural blend with its point of origin: the Maya. The mighty empire flourished in the region from 1,500 B.C. to A.D. 1,000, building the vast cities ...

Alongside Creoles live Mayans (pre-Columbian natives in Belize and other parts of Central America), Mestizos (a mix of Spanish and Mayan), Mennonite farmers, East Indians, Arabs, Chinese, Britons ...

BELIZE has long been a country of immigrants. British timber-cutters imported African slaves in the 18th century, and in the 1840s Mexican Mayans fled a civil war. More recently, North American ...