Belize

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• ✨The Great Blue Hole is a perfectly circular marine sinkhole, 300 m across and over 120 m deep, named by Jacques Cousteau as one of the world's top scuba diving sites.
• ✨It is the only English-speaking country in Central America, bordered by Spanish-speaking Mexico and Guatemala, and was known as British Honduras until 1973.
• 🍫The ancient Maya considered cacao a sacred gift from the gods and used cacao beans as currency; Belize still produces high-quality organic cacao and hosts an annual Chocolate Festival in May.
• 🌳The Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary is the world's first reserve created specifically to protect jaguars, home to around 200 of these big cats in protected tropical rainforest.