Caledonia
Corozal
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Founded
1894 (132 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
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History

In the 1920s there was a river boat service from Settlement 12 to Settlement 186, stopping at Pueblo Nuevo, Caledonia and Settlement 227. 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 Road 11 was constructed towards Settlement 12 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 Institutions

Roman Catholic Church

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 Settlement 64.

Seventh Day Adventist Church

The Caledonia Church is under the North Belize Mission Conference (Settlement 64) in the Belize Union Mission (Settlement 12) of the Inter-American Division (Miami, Florida) of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. In 2025 they had 124 members.[6]


1894
2026