Orchid Bay is a 114 acre (0.46134204 km²) residential community on the Chetumal Bay

Chetumal Bay

Chetumal Bay is a large bay in northern Belize and eastern Mexico in the south of the Yucatán Peninsula. On the bay is the major city of Chetumal, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The mouth of the bay is redirected southward and buffered by a large Belizean island named Ambergris Caye. The...

 in the Corozal District

Corozal District

Corozal District is the northernmost district of the nation of Belize. The population was 33,335 as of 2000. The district capital is Corozal Town.-The Villages of Corozal District:...

 of northern 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...

. Its New Urbanist architecture is influenced by British Colonial and Spanish Colonial styles of the Caribbean

Caribbean

The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...

. Great Land Holdings L.P. ("GLH") is its owner and developer. It is part of Punta Alegre, which comprises 4000 acres (16.2 km²) of sea frontage between the Maya

Maya civilization

The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...

 ruins at Cerros

Cerros

Cerros is a Maya archaeological site in northern Belize that reached its apogee during the Mesoamerican Late Preclassic. At its nadir, it held a population of approximately 1,089 people. The site is strategically located on a peninsula at the mouth of the New River where it empties into Chetumal...

to the west and the Shipstern Nature Reserve to the east. Punta Alegre Water Services (PAWS), the local utility, is a division of GLH. The Black Orchid is the restaurant and bar of the Orchid Bay Beach Club, which comprises dozens of Maya inspired casitas. The thirteen room Crimson Orchid Inn is in the Orchid Bay neighborhood named Pesacadores Park.
In 2010, Orchid Bay was featured on HGTV's International House Hunters, when a casita was purchased on the program.