BELIZE'S TOPONYMY

Some suppose that the word "Belize" is Mayan etymology. Others attribute the toponym of the importance of copper in the territory a British buccaneer named Wallis. The most substantiated is that the Spanish maps of the area called The Beacon or Beacon, most likely be several on the coast where there are many reefs and shoals. Spanish language mapping of the twentieth century prior to the 1970 usually has the name Belize.

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