Bluefields, Jamaica

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

This article is about the place in Jamaica. For a municipality in Nicaragua, see Bluefields.
Not to be confused with Bluefield (disambiguation).
Bluefields
Town
Bluefields
Coordinates: 18.172°N 78.025°W / 18.172; -78.025
Country Jamaica
ParishWestmoreland

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. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-981-13-2898-5_117


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