Culture and history info
The Cayo district is the Belizean western frontier (you’ll be able to do more horseback riding than in any other part of the country).
On your way from Belmopan to San Ignacio, you will pass the entrance to the modern-day Mennonite settlement of Spanish Lookout. If you want to get a look at what may appear to be a neat town in mid America, you may want to make a short visit. The run into Spanish Lookout is but 15 minutes from the highway. Spanish Lookout is a thriving agriculture community with two supermarkets, major grain production and storage facilities, mechanical and milling facilities, pre-fabricated home factories and several hardware stores.
Both English and Spanish are widely spoken in Cayo, which is home to large populations of Latinos, Creoles, Chinese, Lebanese, Guatemalans, Mennonites and Mayas. As with almost every town here, smaller groups of all other ethnic groups live there, like the Garifuna and East Indians. It is the country’s second largest district, with a population of some sixty thousand people.
The Cayo District provides most of the livestock, poultry and grain consumed here.
