11 Facts About Belmopan

Since 2000, Belmopan has been one of two settlements in Belize to hold official city status, along with Belize City.

Belmopan is located in Cayo District at an altitude of 76 metres above sea level.

Name chosen for the new capital, Belmopan, is derived from the union of two words: "Belize", the name of the longest river in the country, and "Mopan", one of the rivers in this area, which empties into the Belize River.

Belmopan is 50 miles inland from the Caribbean Sea and 76 meters above sea level, located near the Belize River Valley with a view of the Mountain Pine Ridge foothills.

City of Belmopan has three pre-schools, four primary schools and four secondary schools as well as a modern Regional Language Centre on the central campus of the University of Belize, where students from neighbouring Spanish-speaking countries come to study English.

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University of Belize's campus in Belmopan has the following faculties: Education and Arts, Management and Social Sciences, Science and Technology, and Nursing and Allied Health.

At its inception and afterward, Belmopan was governed by the corporation RECONDEV, which answered to the government.

Residents of Belmopan voted in a referendum in 1999 to switch to direct election of a city council.

In 2000, Belmopan was incorporated as a city and held its first City Council election.

Belmopan will have a light rail system that is currently undergoing a feasibility study conducted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

Belmopan is served by Hector Silva Airstrip, a domestic airport located in the Northwest of the city.