Map of Belize City
Belize City
is the nation's principal port and its financial and industrial hub.
Several cruise ships drop anchor outside the port and are tended by
local citizens.
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The
Belize Guide POI 
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Belize
City was founded (originally as "Belize Town") in the mid 17th century
by British lumber harvesters. It had previously been a small Maya city
called Holzuz.
Belize
Town was ideal for the British as a central post because it
was on the sea and a natural outlet for local rivers and creeks down
which the British shipped logwood and mahogany. Belize Town also became
the home of the thousands of African slaves brought in by the British
to assist in the forest industry. It was the coordination site for the
1798 Battle of St. George's Caye,
won by the British against would be
invaders, and the home of the local
courts and government officials up to the 1970's.
For this reason,
historians often say that "the capital was the Colony", because the
center of British control was here.
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