The Belize Barrier Reef

Once, my father said that evern if one remembers the first, he will not remember the second so well. Same goes for the 3rd and 4th.
The Biggest Reef is the Great Barrier Reef, but what about the second?
*blank stares,puzzled look on faces*
The...Belize Barrier Reef!
It is a series of coral reefs straddling the coast of Belize .The Belize Barrier Reef is a 300 km (185 miles) section of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System which is continuous from Cancun on the northeast tip of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and continues through to offshore Guatemala, making it the second largest coral reef system in the world after the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. It is Belize's top tourist destination, attracting almost half of its 260,000 visitors, and vital to its fishing industry .
Charles Darwin described it as "the most remarkable reef in the West Indies" in 1842.

The Belize Barrier Reef is home to a large diversity of plants and animals, one of the most diverse ecosystems of the world:
70 hard coral species
36 soft coral species
500 species of fish
hundreds of invertebrate species
With 90% of the reef still needing to be researched, it is estimated that only 10% of all species has been discovered .