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Bluefields | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 18°10′19″N 78°01′30″W / 18.172°N 78.025°W | |
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]