Arenal is a village in the

Cayo District Cayo is a district located in the west part of Belize, and it contains the capital, Belmopan. It is the most extensive, second-most populous and third-most densely populated of the six districts of Belize. The district's capital is the town of S ...

of central interior

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. It is part of the

Cayo West Cayo West is an electoral constituency in the Cayo District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2025 by Mugiel Gurrea of United Democratic Party (UDP ). Profile The Cayo West constituency was on ...

constituency. The village is in an agricultural region with the most frequent crops being citrus and banana. It is one of 192 municipalities administered at the village level in the country for census-taking purposes. The village had a population of 613 in 2010. This represents roughly 0.9% of the district's total population. This was a 29.1% increase from 475 people recorded in the 2000 census.

Demographics

At the time of the 2010 census, Arenal had a population of 613. Of these, 95.1% were

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, 2.5% Ketchi Maya, 1.1%

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, 0.5% Creole, 0.3%

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, 0.2%

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and 0.2% Mixed. In terms of languages spoken (multiple answers allowed), 99.6% spoke

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, 18.9% English, 2.2% Ketchi Maya, 0.4%

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and 0.2%

; 0.2% could not speak. Population & Housing Census 201

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References

Populated places in Cayo District Cayo West {{Belize-geo-stub