In Belize

Belize

Belize is a constitutional monarchy and the northernmost country in Central America. Belize has a diverse society, comprising many cultures and languages. Even though Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official...

, the Southern Highway takes up where the Hummingbird Highway

Hummingbird Highway

The Hummingbird Highway is one of the four major highways in Belize. It connects the Western Highway outside of Belmopan, Cayo District with the Southern Highway outside of Dangriga, Stann Creek District. It partially follows, and sometimes uses the infrastructure of, the former Stann Creek Railway...

 ends and runs from Dangriga

Dangriga

Dangriga, formerly known as Stann Creek Town, is a town in southern Belize, located on the Caribbean coast at the mouth of Stann Creek. It is the capital of Belize's Stann Creek District and also the largest town in southern Belize...

 to Punta Gorda

Punta Gorda, Belize

Punta Gorda, known locally as PG, is the town of the Toledo District in southern Belize. Punta Gorda is the southernmost sizable town in the nation, with a population of about 6,000 people...

. It is entirely paved, with the completion of a 10-mile segment between Golden Stream and Big Falls circa 2007-08. The Southern Highway provides important access to a number of Maya

Maya civilization

The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...

n ruins

Ruins

Ruins are the remains of human-made architecture: structures that were once complete, as time went by, have fallen into a state of partial or complete disrepair, due to lack of maintenance or deliberate acts of destruction...

 and natural areas. The ancient Mayan sites of Nim Li Punit

Nim Li Punit

Nim Li Punit, is a Maya Classic Period site in the Toledo District of the nation of Belize, located 40 kilometres north of the town of Punta Gorda, at 16° 19' N, 88° 47' 60W...

 and Lubaantun

Lubaantun

Lubaantun is a pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization in southern Belize, Central America...

 are each situated within a few miles west of the highway in southern Belize; the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary

Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary

The Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary is a nature reserve in south-central Belize established to protect the forests, fauna and watersheds of an approximately 400 square kilometre area of the eastern slopes of the Maya Mountains...

 is several miles west of the highway in south-central Belize.

Junction list

Location	km	Mile	Destination	Notes
Toledo Toledo District Toledo District is the southernmost district in Belize, and Punta Gorda the District capital. Although the least developed region in the country, it features some of the most pristine rainforests, extensive cave networks, coastal lowland plains, and offshore cays...	0.0	0.0	Hummingbird Highway Hummingbird Highway The Hummingbird Highway is one of the four major highways in Belize. It connects the Western Highway outside of Belmopan, Cayo District with the Southern Highway outside of Dangriga, Stann Creek District. It partially follows, and sometimes uses the infrastructure of, the former Stann Creek Railway...	Elevation, 21 m
	16.1	10.0	Road into Commerce Bight	Elevation, 23 m
	19.8	12.3	Road into Hopkins Hopkins, Belize Hopkins is a coastal town in eastern Belize.Hopkins is a Garifuna village on the coast of the Stann Creek District in Belize. Hopkins is considered by some Belizeans to be the cultural center of the Garifuna population in Belize...	Elevation, 19 m
	31.1	19.3	Placencia Road –Placencia Placencia Placencia is a small town located in the Stann Creek District of Belize. It is the most southern town on the largest peninsula of the Gulf of Mexico.-History:... , Riversdale Riversdale Riversdale was the last home of William Butler Yeats. It is located in the Dublin suburb of Rathfarnham off the Ballyboden Road.-W. B. Yeats:He took a 13-year lease on the house in 1932. He lived there with his wife and children... , Seine Bight	Elevation, 30 metres
	70.5	43.8	Turnoff to Monkey River Town Monkey River Town Monkey River Town is a village in the north of the Toledo District of the Central American nation of Belize. It is on the Caribbean Sea on the southern shore of the mouth of Belize's Monkey River...	Elevation, 20 m
Stann Creek Stann Creek District Stann Creek District is a district in the south east region of Belize. According to the 2010 census, the district had a population of 32,166 people...	124.6	77.4	Turnoff to Silver Creek, San Miguel, San Pedro Columbia	Elevation, 29 m
	133.7	83.1	Road to Toledo District Toledo District Toledo District is the southernmost district in Belize, and Punta Gorda the District capital. Although the least developed region in the country, it features some of the most pristine rainforests, extensive cave networks, coastal lowland plains, and offshore cays...  – Jimmy Cut, Pueblo Viejo, Blue Creek, Aguacate, Otoxha and Dolores	Elevation, 24 metres
	138.6	86.1	Machaca Forest Station	Elevation, 34 m
	143.0	88.9	Road to Piebra, Barranco, Conejo, Crique Sarco	Elevation, 15 m
	148.3	92.1	West access road – Punta Gorda Punta Gorda, Belize Punta Gorda, known locally as PG, is the town of the Toledo District in southern Belize. Punta Gorda is the southernmost sizable town in the nation, with a population of about 6,000 people...	Elevation, 24 m
	156.2	97.1	West access road	Terminus of highway; elevation, 7 metres