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Bluefields, Jamaica

Town in Westmoreland, Jamaica From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Bluefields is a settlement in Westmoreland Parish on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. It contains a major beach, Bluefields Beach.

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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]

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See also

Bluefields, Nicaragua, also named after Abraham Blauvelt

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