Bluefields, Jamaica

Bluefields
Bluefields
Town
	Bluefields
	Coordinates: 18°10′19″N78°01′30″W / 18.172°N 78.025°W
Country	Jamaica
Parish	Westmoreland

Last updated December 26, 2025

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.

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

[2] 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.

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Bluefields, Jamaica

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