Dangriga, formerly known as Stann Creek Town, is a town in the south of the nation of Belize, at the mouth of the river of Stann Creek on the Caribbean Sea. It is the capital of Belize's Stann Creek District. It was long the second largest population center in the country behind Belize City, but in recent years has been surpassed by Orange Walk Town. Dangriga has some 9,100 people.
Dangriga was first settled under the name "Stann Creek Town" as a trading and logging post in the late 17th century. The population is mostly a mixture of Garifuna, Creole, and Mestizo.
Another possibility is that the name is from the Maya word belix, meaning "muddy water", applied to the Belize River.
The early "settlement of Belize in the Bay of Honduras" grew from a few habitations located at Belize Town and St George's Caye into a de-facto colony of the United Kingdom during the late 18th century.
In the early 19th century the settlement was called British Honduras, and in 1862 it became a Crown Colony.
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