Bluefields, Jamaica
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Town in Westmoreland, Jamaica
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Town | |
  Bluefields | |
| Coordinates: 18°10′19″N 78°01′30″W / 18.172°N 78.025°W / 18.172; -78.025 | |
| Country |  Jamaica |
| Parish | 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]
- Bluefields, Nicaragua, also named after Abraham Blauvelt
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.
