Pristine Seaside Lagoon Acreage along Belize’s Coastal Highway

The perfect seaside/ jungle location for private retreats,
Caribbean homesteads, eco-resorts, and fishing lodges!

InTheTropics Network is the most knowledgeable resource for buying or selling Coastal Road / Manatee / Southern Lagoon regional properties. We have lived here for many years; we know the area’s history, people, cultures and resources well. Let us introduce you to what we define as true “Rare Air” property.

With the newly-paved highway, property values are increasing and wise investors are coming. See below an outline of our current listings for affordable, undeveloped acreage in this beautiful area, some with ocean frontage and some with seaside lagoon frontage (some with both); some with road access and others with water access only.

Some properties are secure “safe-haven estates”, with comfortable off-grid homes, docks, pools, and orchards. All have easy boat access to – or are on the Caribbean Sea. This area is now quickly accessible from the international airport – but private and secluded. There are minimal building restrictions for residences, and reasonable guidelines for resorts and developments.

This “Manatee/ Southern Lagoon” area is Belize’s most breathtaking area. Here the foothills of the dramatic Maya Mountains come closest to the Caribbean Sea: where 7 jungle rivers flow into a vast and pristine coastal estuary; where a huge IUCN wildlife sanctuary protects plants, animals and aquatic life in wild natural abundance.

Property owners can get here quickly from the airport, live in secluded luxury, and make quick Caribbean boat runs to Belize’s MesoAmerican Reef !

Strategic Location

Here Belize’s best road – the Coastal Highway – provides a major shortcut from the airport to the southern half of Belize, and opens this magnificent coastal area. This recently-paved Coastal Highway brings you to Belize’s newest ‘enterprise zone’. Amidst miles of beautiful beaches, thousands of hectares of pristine, natural lands, high-canopy jungle, breath-taking open savanna, and pure jungle rivers. Join us here for Belize’s future growth.

Although secluded, this location is the closest destination-resort are to the international airport. It is well within the travel time necessary for transporting cruise-ship passengers for day-trips. Being centrally located on Belize’s coast, it is an easy day-trip to many of Belize’s fantastic attractions, including National Parks, cave tubing adventure, Jaguar Preserves, Mayan cave exploration, Caribbean beaches, reef snorkeling & diving, astounding fishing, the Belize Zoo, national parks, waterfalls, Maya ruins, and historically important musical and cultural attractions in remote fishing villages.

This is so far from ‘civilization’ that it seems to be a different world. Yet, you can fly out of New York or L.A. in the morning, and be at your coastal retreat by early afternoon.

Road & Ocean Access

An important factor is having direct boat access to the Caribbean Sea ! Numerous properties here not only have deeded road access, but also water frontage on the seaside Southern and Western Lagoons, which flow into the ocean through the short, scenic Manatee Bar River. We have several ocean-front properties in this area with high & dry natural sand beach – perfect for ocean swimming. We also have magnificent acreage bordering wild and scenic mountain streams. Several of our properties are suitable for approved ocean marina development. This area is one of Belize’s most important estuaries, offering not only safe harborage, but abundant natural resources and water sports.

InTheTropics can help you secure the local resources necessary to build you dream here on Belize’s wild coast.

This area boasts the largest population of West Indian Manatee in North or Central America, or the Caribbean basin. Scientists come here from around the world to study. It’ is ocean beaches are an important breeding ground for rare Hawksbill Turtles. The sport fishing here is incredible, but must be managed carefully to respect its designation of IUCN Category IV Wildlife Sanctuary. Jaguar, puma, ocelot, aracari, toucan, parrots, howler & spider monkeys, tapir, and countless species of birds, plants, aquatic life are present in their natural abundance. This area is one of Belize’s wild jewels, indeed one of the earth’s last wild places, and as such it must be preserved. Most property sections here are large – and development must be low-density and controlled to honor the pristine environment and the local culture.

As of October 2024, these fine properties are available:

• 50 affordable acres on the Southern Lagoon;

• 3 acres Oceanfront with two Beach Houses;

• 125-ac Safe Haven with 2 tear-down houses, a dock & 1000ft beach;

• 300 “Isthmus” acres extending from the Caribbean Beach to the Southern Lagoon Beach (subdivided);

• 359 acre spectacular Southern Lagoon peninsula;

• 200 acres on the Western Lagoon near Ben Lowman Cave;

• 100 acres on the Western Lagoon near Ben Lowman Cave, subdivided into lots;

• Belize’s only inland Hot Springs, on the Southern Lagoon;

• 870 acre Safe Haven estate, w/docks, swimming pool, lodge, + multiple dwellings;

• 10 buildable, landscaped, oceanfront acres on the Caribbean Sea;

• 19 acre Caribbean Beach, water access only;