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9 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Belize

Updated September 9, 2026
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Belize's Maya Drained Their Swamps to Make Farmland

Their wide-reaching wetland agriculture helped support the civilization.
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The bone helps to explain how the creature stuck around for more than 10,000 years.
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