Top crop: Indigenous to the tropical forests of Central America, cacao trees have grown wild in Belize for some 3,000 years — flourishing in
the humid microclimates of cenotes — and farmed since around 250 B.C. Today Belize's cacao farmers, mostly in the country's southern Toledo District, cultivate the native Criollo plant, which is considered to be the highest quality cacao bean native to Central America.