St. Peter Claver Catholic parish, Belize

In 1883 Q'eqchi' Maya from Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, settled in Crique Sarco and Dolores near Punta Gorda.

School populations included Punta Gorda 100, Barranco 50, Monkey River Town 40, Sarstoon 90, and San Antonio 120.

With World War I the Cramers were forced to close but most Maya remained in the Sarstoon, Temash, and Moho River areas.

[4] In 1931 the Pallottine sisters built Nazareth, their Belizean novitiate (pictured at right), at Fairview, four miles northwest of Punta Gorda.

[2]: 272 The parish remains the hub serving 30 Maya mission stations, each with its own Catholic-run, government-subsidized grade school.