Ambergris Cay is the largest of Belize's more than 200 off-shore islands. The island is a 25 mile long, flat, coral sand island, protected on the east by a living reef that extends 185 miles down the coast of Belize.
Ambergris is the southern most extension of the Yucatan Peninsula, a unique Peninsula of porous limestone. European contact with Ambergris Cay settlers is documented from 1508. At that time, the area was populated by the Maya.