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Belize River Front Real Estate and Investment Properties
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Laughing Bird Caye
Laughing Bird Faro is located in the middle of the widest part of
the shelf about 14 miles (23 km) from Placencia. The faro is a
ringed reef consisting of an outer rim that encloses an inner lagoon
and inner reefs. Laughing Bird is an excellent example of a faro. The
faro is 5.5 miles (8.8km) long and 1.6 miles (2.5km) in width at the
widest point. This type of feature is also called a "rhomboid shoal"
and is built by living reef organisms.
The windward (East) rim of the faro is within a few
feet of the surface in most places and awash in others. Laughing
Bird Caye occuppies a small area on the southeast side. The leeward
side is also generally a few feet or more below sealevel. The floor
of the enclosed lagoon is about 23 feet deep maximum with many
pinnacles rising to the surface.
The park itself is 1.414 acres of land, sea and reef. The initial
legislation 1991 declared only the island itself as national
park. With the designation of the Belize Barrier Reef as a World
Heritage Site, there is movement underway to declared the entire
Laughing Bird Faro as belonging to the Laughing Bird Caye National
Park.
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