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Bluefields | |
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Town | |
| Coordinates:18°10′19″N78°01′30″W / 18.172°N 78.025°W /18.172; -78.025 | |
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| Parish | Westmoreland |
Bluefields is asettlement inWestmoreland Parish on the Caribbean island of Jamaica. It contains a major beach,Bluefields Beach.
InSpanish Jamaica, Bluefields was known as Oristan.[1]
The town was named afterAbraham Blauvelt, aDutch-Jewish pirate, privateer, and explorer ofCentral America and the western Caribbean.[2]