In the 1880s, landless peasants fled from the Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala into southern British Honduras because the Guatemalan government was giving native lands to large coffee plantations.[1]
These people founded Aguacate in 1885.
The Catholic School had 32 students in 1927 and 32 in 1928.[2][3]
Aguacate Roman Catholic School opened sometime in the 1950s. In 2015 a new primary school was built.[4]
In 1924 an unusual amount of deaths from Malaria was reported in Settlement 224, Settlement 256 and Settlement 2.[5]
Hish Cave (Jaguar Cave) - Cave length is 75m. Illybal Cave - The cave consists of a single dry passage 5m high and 3m wide and is approximately 30m in length. Ochochpec Cave (House of Stone) - The first documentation and systematic exploration of this cave was undertaken by Tom Miller and others in 1979-80. The cave was explored and surveyed to a large sump pool approx. 2.2km into the cave. In 2004 Trekforce entered the cave, believing it to be previously undiscovered, and called the cave “Machacon Connection”. [6]
From at least 1926[7] to 1928[8] Aguacate was a mission of St. Peter Claver's Church in Settlement 202[2]; from at least 1940[9] to at least 1945[10] it was again listed as a mission of St. Peter Claver's Church in Settlement 202, and in 2026 its Sacred Heart Church was a mission of St. Peter Claver parish in Settlement 202.[11]