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Placencia: Venture to the South

Placencia is a long narrow peninsula on sula is generally a long expanse of white permanent residents according to the 2000
the Caribbean Sea coast of the Stann sand beach; the western side is bounded census. The village of Placencia occupies
Creek District in Belize. In the late 20th cen- by a long narrow north-south trending bay the southernmost mile of the peninsula. On
tury it became a significant tourism destina- of the Caribbean Sea. The largest commu- the eastern side is a sandy beach, and be-
tion. Placencia was the filming site for the fi- nity on the peninsula is the Village of Pla- tween the beach and the road (which ends
nale of VH1’s reality series the Flavor of Love cencia, situated at the extreme southern tip at a fuel station and a handful of piers) is a
2. The eastern side of the Placencia Penin- of the peninsula. The village is home to 458 narrow pedestrian-only footway.