Valley of Peace is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the Cayo District

Cayo District

Cayo District is a district in the west of the nation of Belize. The District capital is the town of San Ignacio.- Geography :The Cayo District is the largest district in Belize. It is located on the western side of the country which borders Guatemala. The nation's capital, Belmopan, is...

 of 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...

. In 2000 Valley of Peace had a population

Population

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 of 1,809 people. The population in 2007 grew to 2,108.

It was created as a refugee

Refugee

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 community for immigrants fleeing from the El Salvador Civil War

El Salvador Civil War

The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict in El Salvador between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front , a coalition or umbrella organization of five left-wing militias. Significant tensions and violence had already existed, before the civil...

. Each family was facilitated with a plot of land and are the predominant suppliers of vegetable

Vegetable

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s to the Belmopan

Belmopan

Belmopan , estimated population 20,000 is the capital city of Belize.Belmopan is located at , at an altitude of 76 metres above sea level. Belmopan was constructed just to the east of Belize River, inland from the former capital, the port of Belize City, after that city's near destruction by...

 area. This community started with a total of seven families. Of these families; five were refugees (Alfaro, Umaña, Cruz, Echeverria, Barrera, Hernandez, and Zometa), one was Belizean Kriol

Kriol

The word Kriol could mean one of the following ethnic groups:* Belizean Kriol people or Kriols* Upper Guinea Kriol peopleIt could also mean any of the following Creole languages:* The English-based Australian Kriol language...

 (Mr. Scott and his family) and a Mennonite

Mennonite

The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after the Frisian Menno Simons , who, through his writings, articulated and thereby formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders...

family (Mr. Duek & Family). But yet Valley of Peace is still the peaceful village that it has been for more than 25 years.