Belize City is the largest city in Belize. It was once the capital of the former British Honduras. According to the 2022 census, Belize City has a population of 63,999 people. It is at the mouth of the Haulover Creek, which is a distributary of the Belize River. The Belize River empties into the Caribbean Sea eight kilometres (five miles) from Belize City on the Philip Goldson Highway on the coast of the Caribbean. The city is the country's principal port and its financial and industrial hub. Cruise ships drop anchor outside the port and are tendered by local citizens. The city was almost entirely destroyed in October 1961 when Hurricane Hattie swept ashore. It was the capital of British Honduras (as Belize was then named) until the government was moved to the new capital of Belmopan in 1970.

Belize City was founded as "Belize Town" in 1638 by English lumber harvesters. It had been a small Maya settlement called Holzuz. Belize Town was ideal for the English 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 English (later the British, beginning in 1707) to toil in the forestry 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 1970s. For this reason, historians often say that "the capital was the colony", because the center of British control was here.

This sentiment remains true today. Even though people like Antonio Soberanis Gómez, George Price and Evan X Hyde all lobbied to take their movements outside, and other ethnic groups such as the Garifuna and Mestizos sprang up elsewhere in the country, people looked to Belize Town for guidance.

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  Belize is a list of things to do in Belize City.

  Below are some special offers for groups of 4 persons and more:

• Zipline: USD$90.00 per/ person
• Cave Tubing: USD$90.00 per/ person
• Cave Tubing and Zipline: USD$110.00 per/ person
• Cave tubing and xunantunich ruins: USD$120.00 per/ person
• Cave tubing zipline xunantunich ruins: USD$150.00 per/ person
• Altun ha and cave tubing: USD$120.00 per/ person
• ATM cave tour: USD$195.00 per/ person
• Altun Ha Mayan ruins: USD$75.00 per/ person
• Xunantunich Mayan ruins: USD$100.00 per/ person
• Cave tubing and Belize zoo: USD$130.00 per/ person
• Zipline and Belize zoo: USD$130.00 per/ person

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