Caledonia
Corozal
Loading map...
Founded
1917 (109 years)?
Prominent Ethnicity
Mestizo
Population
2022
1,373 (-0.2%)
Household Size
4.0
Males
692
Females
446
2010
1,400 (+0.5%)
Household Size
5.1
Males
729
Females
671
2000
1,329 (+1.8%)
Household Size
5.7
Males
702
Females
627
1991
1,143 (+1.9%)
Household Size
6.2
Males
600
Females
543
1980
942
Household Size
5.9
Males
529
Females
413
D
D-class article
History

In the 1920s there was a river boat service from Belize City to Orange Walk Town, stopping at Pueblo Nuevo, Caledonia and San Estevan. On the return trip to the city they would carry goods from the villages. From Caledonia they loaded pigs, alligator skins, and tobacco leaves bound into bundles. But after the Philip Goldson Highway was constructed towards Belize City in the 1930s, the river boat traffic died out.[1]

In 2013 a construction company destroyed a 2,000-year-old Mayan pyramid at the nearby Noh Mul Archaeological Site using bulldozers to extract gravel for road fill, sparking outrage and comments from NGOs and archaeologists around the world.[2]

Education

The Catholic School had 57 students in 1927 and 55 in 1928.[3][4]

Religious

From at least 1917[5] to 1927[3] Caledonia had a catholic mission under the St. Stephen's Church, from Settlement 227, but then in 1928[4] it was transferred to the Church of St. Francis Xavier from Corozal Town.


References
[3] Catholic Directory 1927
[4] Catholic Directory 1928
[5] Catholic Directory 1917
1917
2026