Fragments of Hope, Belize

PLACENCIA PENINSULA, BELIZE

Stretching 16 miles long, the Placencia Peninsula in southern Belize is home to several communities inclduing:  Riversdale, Maya Beach, Seine Bight and Placencia at its southern most tip.  Regarded as one of Belize’s most popular tourism destinations, this low laying beach strip is bounded by the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Placencia Lagoon, to the west.  Only three miles wide and fifty meters narrow, the peninsula is regarded as the largest sand pit of the Belize coastal plane.

 

 

THE PLACENCIA LAGOON

Home to a remarkable diversity of wildlife with much of the coastline covered by mangroves, the semi-enclosed, shallow estuary is just over two miles wide and fifteen miles long encompassing roughly 11.5 square miles, with depths of about seven meters.