High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valley of Peace (Valle de Paz in original Spanish) is a village in the Cayo District of Belize. In 2000 Valley of Peace had a population of 1,809 people. The population in 2007 grew to 2,108. It was created as a refugee community for immigrants fleeing from the El Salvador Civil War. Each family was facilitated with a plot of land and are the predominant suppliers of vegetables to the Belmopan area. This community started with a total of seven families. Of these families; five were refugees (Alfaro, Umaña, Cruz, Echeverria, Barrera, Hernandez, and Zometa), one was Belizean Kriol (Mr. Scott and his family) and a Mennonite family (Mr. Duek & Family). But yet Valley of Peace is still the peaceful village that it has been for more than 25 years.