Bluefields, Jamaica
Town in Westmoreland, Jamaica
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Coordinates: 18°10′19″N 78°01′30″W / 18.172°N 78.025°W / 18.172; -78.025 | |
Country | Jamaica |
Parish | Westmoreland |
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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
- ↑ 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 .