Bluefields | |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Parish |
Subdivision Name1: | Westmoreland |
Coordinates: | 18.172°N -78.025°W |
Pushpin Map: | 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.[1]
The town was named after Abraham Blauvelt, a Dutch-Jewish pirate, privateer, and explorer of Central America and the western Caribbean.[2]