ATLAS · WORLD HERITAGE · BELIZE
World Heritage Sites in Belize
Belize has 1 site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 1 natural. 1 is currently listed as World Heritage in Danger. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
SITES1
CULTURAL · NATURAL0 · 1
IN DANGER1
By heritage type
Cultural0 · 0%
Natural1 · 100%
Mixed0 · 0%
Notable sites in Belize
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
naturalBelize Barrier Reef Reserve System⚠ IN DANGER1996
The coastal area of Belize is an outstanding natural system consisting of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons and estuaries. The system’s seven sites illustrate the evolutionary history of reef developm…