Orange Walk, Belize Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

With a population approaching twenty thousand, ORANGE WALK is the largest town in the north of Belize and the centre of a busy agricultural region. Like Corozal, less than an hour away along the Northern Highway, it was founded by mestizo refugees fleeing from the Caste Wars in Yucatán in 1849, who chose as their site an area that had long been used for logging camps and was already occupied by the local Icaiché (Chichanha) Maya. Orange Walk traditionally thrived on the sugar and citrus industries, but a fall in sugar prices has seen it come to depend more heavily on profits from marijuana – though … more »