Bluefields, Jamaica

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.C.V. Black, A History of Jamaica (London: Collins, 1975), p. 38.

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

See also Bluefields, Nicaragua, also named after Abraham Blauvelt

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