ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide https://www.archdaily.com/ Thu, 5 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://assets.adsttc.com/doodles/archdaily-logo-feedly.svg 026CB6 https://www.archdaily.com/1187926/a-garden-city-in-the-caribbean-planning-belizes-new-capital-belmopan Thu, 05 Nov 2026 04:00:00 +0000 Moises Carrasco https://www.archdaily.com/1187926/a-garden-city-in-the-caribbean-planning-belizes-new-capital-belmopan Located on the Caribbean coast of Central America, Belize is a small country with an intriguing history. It is bordered by Mexico to the north and Guatemala to the west and south, with the Caribbean Sea along its eastern edge. Known as British Honduras for most of its past, it was formally made into a British colony in 1862, long after its Central American neighbors had won their independence from Spain. As the territory transitioned toward independence, it adopted two symbols of its emerging identity: a new name, Belize, and a new capital, which was built not just to govern the new nation, but also as a way to prevent hurricanes from putting the country's institutional stability at risk.

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