Spanish Lookout
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Spanish Lookout is a village in the Cayo District of Belize. In 2000, Spanish Lookout had a population of 1,786 people.
Spanish Lookout is populated by a community of Mennonites. This community's outlook on life is less strict than other Mennonite groups, in that it allows its members to use machinery.
The citizens of this community speak a derivative of the German language; most also speak English and Spanish. It's largely an agricultural community with some light industry, furniture making and prefabricated wood houses. It's unique in Belize because except for the palm trees one might think one was in a small town in the Southern United States.
There are three ways into Spanish Lookout. One requires the use of a hand cranked ferry, one is a long dirt road that goes through the neighboring town of Bullet Tree, and one is a bridge the Mennonites built after years of promises to build one by the government and one failed attempt. (Fell down about half way through construction)
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