Bluefields, Jamaica

Bluefields
Town
Bluefields
Coordinates: 18°10′19″N 78°01′30″W / 18.172°N 78.025°W / 18.172; -78.025
Country Jamaica
ParishWestmoreland

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.

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

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