The British forced the Mopan out of British Honduras and into Guatemala. The Mopan in Guatemala were made into slaves. In the 19th century, many Guatemalan Mopan came back into British Honduras.
In the 2000 Census, 6,093 Belizeans said Mopan was their first language. This was 3% the population.
Q'eqchi' people
Q'eqchi<nowiki>'</nowiki> (K'ekchi<nowiki>'</nowiki>, or simply Kekchi) are one of the Maya peoples in Guatemala and Belize. Their language is also called Q'eqchi'.
Before the Spanish came in the 1520s, Q'eqchi' were mostly in what are now the departments of Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz in Guatemala. With the activity the Q'eqchi' moved into other regions of Guatemala, southern Belize, and smaller numbers in El Salvador, Honduras and southern Mexico.
Ambergris Caye
Ambergris Caye is the largest island of Belize. It is in the northeast of the country in the Caribbean Sea. It is administered as part of the Belize District. The closest point on the mainland is part of the Corozal District. Caye is pronounced as "key". It means an island.
The Caye is about long from north to south, and about wide. It was named after large lumps of ambergris which washed ashore here.
The Belizean island is mostly a ring of white sand beach around mangrove swamp in the centre.
A Maya community lived on the island in Pre-Columbian times. They made polished red ceramics.
San Pedro Town is the largest settlement and only town on Ambergris. There are a number of small villages and resorts.
The main attractions are the Belize Barrier Reef and its beaches. The barrier reef is the second-largest in the world. Only the Great Barrier Reef of Australia is bigger.
Izabal Department
Izabal is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala. Its coastal areas are part of the homeland of the Garifuna people.
Izabal is bordered to the north by Belize, to the north east by the Gulf of Honduras, and to the east by Honduras. It is bordered by the Guatemalan departments of Petén to the north west, Alta Verapaz to the west, and Zacapa to the south.
The department of Izabal surrounds Lago Izabal. It is Guatemala's largest lake at about 48 km long and 24 km wide, with an area of about 590 km². The Spanish Colonial fort of San Felipe overlooks the point where the lake flows into the Río Dulce.
The small town of Izabal is on the south shore of the lake. Before the ports of Livingston and Puerto Barrios were built in the 19th century this was Guatemala's main Caribbean Sea port. It was the original seat of Izabal department. Now Izabal town is a remote village that gets little traffic.
From the area around Lake Izabal, the Department of Izabal stretches along the Río Dulce to the coast of the Caribbean Sea.
The department of Izabal includes the ports of Puerto Barrios (the departmental seat), Santo Tomás de Castilla, Livingston and Guatemala's free trade zone Zolic. Izabal also includes the Pre-Columbian Maya ruins of Quirigua.
List of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes
SpongeBob SquarePants is an animated television series broadcast on Nickelodeon, an American cable network. The series started showing on May 1, 1999. It is in its thirteenth season.
The first season of "SpongeBob SquarePants" premiered on May 1, 1999. The season ended on March 3, 2001. The DVD for the season was released in regions one, two and four on October 28, 2003, November 7, 2005, and November 30, 2006, respectively. The pilot episode, "Help Wanted" was not included on the season one DVD, due to copyright issues with Tiny's Tim song "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight," which was used in the episode. However, this episode was included as a bonus feature on the season three DVD. 41 episodes were produced this season.
The second season of "SpongeBob SquarePants" premiered on October 20, 2000, with the episodes "Something Smells" and "Bossy Boots". The season ended on July 26, 2003 with "Gary Takes a Bath". The DVD for the season was released in Regions one, two, and four on October 19, 2004, October 23, 2006, and November 30, 2006, respectively. 39 episodes were produced this season.
The third season of "SpongeBob SquarePants" premiered on October 5, 2001, with the episodes "The Bully" and "Just One Bite". The season ended on October 11, 2004 with "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" and "Pranks a Lot". The DVD for the season was released in regions one, two and four on September 27, 2005, November 8, 2007 and December 3, 2007 respectively. Following the season three finale, the series entered a hiatus that would last for over six months. During the hiatus, "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" was released to cinemas. 37 episodes were produced this season.
The fourth season of "SpongeBob SquarePants" premiered on May 6, 2005, with the episodes "Fear of a Krabby Patty" and "Shell of a Man". The season ended on July 24, 2007 with the episode "Squid Wood". Unlike the previous seasons, season four was released in two volume DVDs. The volume one DVD was released in region one on September 12, 2006. The volume two DVD was released in region one on January 9, 2007, with nine episodes from the season being released on that DVD before airing on American television. The season set was released in its entirety in region two on November 3, 2008. 38 episodes were produced this season.
The fifth season of "SpongeBob SquarePants" premiered on May 5, 2006, with the episode "Friend or Foe". The season ended on July 19, 2009 with the airing of "Goo Goo Gas". As in season four, the season DVDs were split into two volumes. The volume one DVD was released in region one on September 4, 2007 while the second was released on November 18, 2008. 41 episodes were produced this season.
The sixth season of "SpongeBob SquarePants" premiered on March 3, 2008, with the episode "Krabby Road". The season ended on July 5, 2010 with "The Clash of Triton". Like seasons four and five, the season DVDs were split into two volumes. The volume one DVD was released in region one on December 8, 2009, while the volume two DVD was released in region one on December 7, 2010. 47 episodes were produced this season.
The seventh season of "SpongeBob SquarePants" was announced in March 2008. The season premiered on July 19, 2009 with the airings of "I ♥ Dancing", "Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy", "Growth Spout", "Tentacle-Vision", "The Inside Job", and "Stuck in the Wringer", and ended on June 11, 2011 with the Legends of Bikini Bottom episode "The Curse of the Hex". The DVD for this season was released in region one on December 6, 2011, in region four on September 9, 2012, and region two on September 17, 2012, making it the first season DVD since the third season DVD to be have its season released in its entirety in region one.
The eighth season of "SpongeBob SquarePants" was announced in December 2009. The season premiered on March 26, 2011 with the airings of "Oral Report" and "A Friendly Game", and ended on December 6, 2012 with the Nickelodeon airing of "It's a SpongeBob Christmas!". Season 8 consist of episodes 153-178. With the airing of "Squiditis", on April 12, 2012, it passed "Rugrats", which had 172 episodes, and became Nickelodeon's longest running cartoon. The DVD for this season was released in region one on March 12, 2013, in region two on October 28, 2013, and region four on October 30, 2013.