Ambergris Caye, pronounced “am-BER-gris”, is the largest island of Belize located northeast in the Caribbean Sea, part of the Corozal District.
The Caye (pronounced as “key”, meaning an island from the Spanish word: cayo) is about 25 miles long, and about 1 miles wide, named after large lumps of ambergris which washed ashore here.
The Belizean island, where it has been untouched by man, is mostly white sand beach surrounding mangrove swamps.
San Pedro Town is the only town on Ambergris, along with a number of small villages and resorts. Captain Morgan’s and Mata Chica resorts north of San Pedro were hosts to the first season of Fox’s Temptation Island in 2001.
The main tourist attractions are the Belize Barrier Reef and its beaches, which are the second largest in the world, after the Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
The caye can be reached by air through a small airstrip by plane from Belize City or by sea on fast ferries. There is also a ferry from Chetumal in Mexico.
