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17-710: The Chiquibul forest reserve lies adjacent to the Belize-Guatemalan border. Iconsists of 59,822 hectares. The Chiquibul Forest Reserve is bordered to the southwest, east, and south by the Chiquibul National Park , on the northwest edge by the Caracol Archaeological Reserve (CAR), and on the north side by the Mountain Pine Ridge . The reserve, along with the national park and archeological reserve, comprise

34-603: A small portion of northeast Greenland . There is no hemisphere that includes all of the Americas that also excludes all land outside of it, regardless of the meridians or points chosen to define it. Below is a list of the sovereign states in both the Western and Eastern hemispheres on the IERS Reference Meridian , in order from north to south: Below is a list of additional sovereign states which are in both

51-639: Is Genovesa Island at 0°19′N 89°57′W  /  0.317°N 89.950°W  / 0.317; -89.950 . The highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere is Aconcagua in the Andes of Argentina at 6,960.8 m (22,837 ft). The tallest freestanding structure in the Western Hemisphere is the CN Tower in Toronto at 553.3 m (1,815 ft) and the tallest building in

68-609: Is managed for timber products and non-timber forest products . It is managed by Bulridge Limited under a long-term forest license issued by the Government of Belize in 2006, with the Belize Forest Department as the regulatory body for sustainable forest management. Bulridge Limited, under its long-term forest license, conducts selective logging, as well as silvicultural practices and road maintenance to promote sustainable logging operations. The primary threat to

85-493: Is not included within the park's total area. Chiquibul Forest Reserve is adjacent to the park. Chiquibul National Park was originally part of Chiquibul Forest Reserve, which was designated in 1956. In 1991, due to lobbying from conservationists , the three-quarters of the forest reserve that did not have active logging concessions was re-designated as a national park under Belize's National Parks System Act. The park's borders were re-defined in 1995. Caracol became surrounded by

102-654: The 180th meridian . The other half is called the Eastern Hemisphere . Geo-politically, the term Western Hemisphere is often used as a metonym for the Americas or the " New World ", even though geographically the hemisphere also includes parts of other continents. The Western Hemisphere consists of the Americas , excluding some of the Aleutian Islands to the southwest of the Alaskan mainland;

119-775: The Chiquibul Cave System , the longest known cave system in Central America . The cave system is made up of caves linked by water flows, including the Chiquibul River . The Chiquibul River flows through Belize, goes underground into the cave system, and resurfaces in Guatemala. The cave system includes the largest known underground passages and cave chamber discovered in the Western Hemisphere . The forest has been mostly unbroken since

136-564: The Belize River watershed, and riparian areas that support the Baird’s tapir. Chiquibul National Park Chiquibul National Park is Belize 's largest national park . It is 1,073 km (414 sq mi) in size. The park is located in Belize's Cayo District . The national park surrounds Caracol , a Mayan city. Caracol has been designated as an archaeological reserve and

153-525: The Chiquibul Forest Reserve, includes seventeen distinct ecosystems which are largely variants of lowland and submontane tropical evergreen broadleaf forests with differing levels of humidity and substrate types. This provides a diversity which habitat for a wide variety of fauna, including many rare species such as jaguar, ocelot, margay, and scarlet macaw. It is estimated the area receives 2,000 mm of rainfall per year and forms part of

170-745: The Chiquibul Forest. The site, which lies wholly within the Greater Mayan Mountains of Belize, was first designated as a forest reserve in 1956 when it covered an area of 184,925.9 hectares. Part of the reserve was then re-classified as the Chiquibul National Park and the Caracol Archeological Reserve. Since the reclassification in 1991, the reserve has covered 59,822 hectares. It is the largest managed reserve in Belize. The reserve

187-487: The Maya left it centuries ago. The park has high biodiversity. Species found in the park include keel-billed motmots , kinkajous , jaguars , jaguarundis , king vultures , margays , ocelots , ocellated turkeys , Yucatan spider monkeys , and Baird's tapirs . It has Belize's largest breeding population of scarlet macaws . New insect and crustacean species have been discovered in the park. The biological diversity of

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204-664: The Western Hemisphere is One World Trade Center in New York City at 541.3 m (1,776 ft). In an attempt to match the Western Hemisphere more closely with the Americas, some sources use the 20th meridian west and the diametrically opposed 160th meridian east to define the hemisphere. This definition excludes all of the European and African mainlands, but still includes some islands associated with these continents, more of eastern Russia and Oceania, and part of Antarctica. It includes all islands of Alaska, but excludes

221-682: The Western and Eastern hemispheres along the 180th meridian , in order from north to south. (France is not listed below due to its inclusion above, though the meridian does pass Wallis and Futuna .) With the exception of the United States (due to Wake Island , Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands ), all of them are located on just one side of the International Date Line , which curves around them. The following countries and territories lie outside

238-489: The flora and fauna faced by the reserve is poaching , illegal logging , harvesting of Xate by Guatemalan Xateros, and other illegal activities. These activities are performed primarily by residents of a number of Guatemalan communities that lie close to the Belize-Guatemalan border, and have easy access to the reserve. Access to the reserve from the Belizean side is more problematic. The Chiquibul Forest region, including

255-576: The national park. The western side of the park lies along Belize's border with Guatemala . The park lies west of the Maya Mountains . The park's landscape includes south Vaca Plateau and eastern slopes of the Maya Mountains. Doyle's Delight , the highest mountain in Belize, is located in the park. The park is located on a layer of limestone strata , the largest area of protected karst in Belize. The park incorporates portions of

272-496: The park has not yet been fully explored. In 1993, a botanist from Missouri Botanical Garden collected more than 130 plant species previously unreported in Belize. Three of these species had never before been reported in Central America . Western Hemisphere The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian —which crosses Greenwich , London , England —and east of

289-708: The westernmost portions of Europe and Africa , both mainland and islands; the extreme eastern tip of the Russian mainland and islands ( North Asia ); numerous territories in Oceania ; and a large portion of Antarctica . The center of the Western Hemisphere is located in the Pacific Ocean at the intersection of the 90th meridian west and the Equator , among the Galápagos Islands . The nearest land

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