Placencia

Placencia is a tourist village of about 1600 people (2022) at the southern tip of the resort Placencia peninsula in Belize. It offers tourist bars, kayaking, snorkelling, diving, saltwater fly fishing, and whale shark watching. Wikivoyage

Population 1,586 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in Belize

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Belize

Getting there

Where are you starting from?

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Seahorse Dive Center Attraction · 570 m

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Eating nearby

Regional 2

All 3 places to eat

Getting around

Hokey Pokey Ferry Terminal 740 m

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