Chiquibul National Park

Chiquibul National Park is the largest national park in Belize at 264,000 acres. It is managed by Friends for Conservation and Development (FCD), who are partnered with Trekforce.

The Chiquibul National Park is located in the western part of Belize, stretching from the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve and Vaca Forest Reserve south towards the Maya Mountains. The national park is U-shaped and borders three edges of the Chiquibul Forest Reserve and encompasses the archaeological site of Caracol. The park contains the highest point in Belize, Doyle's Delight (1124m), situated on the Maya Divide, the watershed between the north and south of Belize.

Chiquibul National Park, along with Chiquibul Forest Reserve, is part of the Chiquibul-Maya Mountain block (1,343,000 acres) and are connected with other protected areas in Belize such as Bladen Nature Reserve, Cockscomb Basin WIldlife Sanctuary and the Forest Reserves of Columbia River, Vaca, Mountain Pine Ridge, Sibun and Sittee River, which creates a single continuous ecological unit.

These areas are an outstanding area of biological diversity and provide critical habitats for many endangered species. It also forms a large part of the internationally supported Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, which aims to maintain global and regional environmental integrity and promote local socio-economic well-being. This bioregion is the largest contigious block of tropical forest north of the Amazon.