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Nearly 11% of Belize’s modern population is Maya, and the majority of the country is Mestizo, a mix of indigenous and European descent (most commonly Maya and Spanish).

Thanks to the island’s small size, plus a network of “hopper” planes, it’s easy to get a geographic sampler of this Central American country during a one-week vacation here.