Bluefields, Jamaica

Coordinates: 18°10′19″N 78°01′30″W / 18.172°N 78.025°W / 18.172; -78.025
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Bluefields
Town
Westmoreland

Bluefields is a settlement in Westmoreland Parish on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. It contains a major beach, Bluefields Beach.

In

Spanish Jamaica, Bluefields was known as Oristan.[1]

The town was named after Abraham Blauvelt, a Dutch-Jewish pirate, privateer, and explorer of Central America and the western Caribbean.[2]

References

  1. ^ C.V. Black, A History of Jamaica (London: Collins, 1975), p. 38.
  2. S2CID 239122464
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