Pine Hill, Belize

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Pine Hill
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Coordinates: 16°14′44″N88°49′48″W / 16.24556°N 88.83000°W / 16.24556; -88.83000
Country Flag of Belize.svg  Belize
District Toledo District
Population
 (2022 [1] )
 • Total
334
Time zone UTC-6 (Central)
Climate Af

Pine Hill is a Mennonite village in Toledo District, Belize, some 15 km north of the district capital Punta Gorda.

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Pine Hill is a daughter colony of the Upper Barton Creek settlement. It was founded around 1997. It is home to very conservative Mennonites, who belong to the Noah Hoover branch of Old Order Mennonites.

The community makes a living of farming, of cheese and other dairy production and of wood working. They also raise cattle and keep bees for honey production. There is also horse powered saw mill at Pine Hill. [2]

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
2000 97—    
2010 206+112.4%
2022 334+62.1%
[3] [4] [5] [1]

At the time of the 2010 census, Pine Hill had a population of 206. Of these, 100.0% were Mennonite. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 2022 Housing and Population Census
  2. ↑ "Boden Creek Ecological Preserve" page 3.
  3. ↑ Carel Roessingh and Kees Boersma: ‘We are growing Belize’: modernisation and organisational change in the Mennonite settlement of Spanish Lookout, Belize. 2011
  4. ↑ Belize Population and Housing Census - Country Report 2010 Archived 27 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "Population Data – Census 2010" (PDF). Statistical Institute of Belize. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Population & Housing Census 2010
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