Spanish Lookout

Spanish Lookout
Spanish Lookout is located in Belize
Spanish Lookout
Spanish Lookout
Coordinates: 17°15′01″N 88°59′51″W / 17.2504°N 88.9974°W / 17.2504; -88.9974
Country Belize
DistrictCayo District
ConstituencyCayo North East
Population
 (2010)
 • Total2,253
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central)

Spanish Lookout is a settlement in the Cayo District of Belize in Central America. According to the 2010 census, Spanish Lookout had a population of 2,253 people in 482 households (2005 census has population is 2,300 and 2000 census had population is 1,786).[1] Spanish Lookout is a community of Mennonites.

The Mennonite community in Spanish Lookout is quite modern: they use cars and other modern conveniences and the overall impression of the settlement is rather like rural North America than Central America or the Caribbean. The citizens of this community speak Plautdietsch as their mothertongue. Most also speak English and Spanish. It is largely an agricultural community with some light industry, furniture making, prefabricated wood houses and the only oil field in production in Belize.

  1. ^ "Population Data – Census 2010". Statistical Institute of Belize. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.