Bluefields, Jamaica

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

Bluefields
Town
Bluefields
Coordinates: 18.172°N 78.025°W / 18.172; -78.025
Country	Jamaica
Parish	Westmoreland

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

C.V. Black, A History of Jamaica (London: Collins, 1975), p. 38.
Cwik, Christian (2019). "Displaced Minorities: The Wayuu and Miskito People". The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. pp. 1593–1609. doi:10.1007/978-981-13-2898-5_117. ISBN 978-981-13-2897-8. S2CID 239122464.

Settlements in Jamaica

For the definition of city, town, etc., see: Settlements in Jamaica.

Cities

Towns

Villages

Neighbourhoods

Kingston
and
St Andrew

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