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Statue of Cristobal Columbus St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica Buildings of architectural and historic interest Anchor Priory 20230605. Bellevue Great House, Orange Hall; Edinburgh Castle – ruins, main road from Harmony Vale to Pedro; Moneague Inn; Seville Great House; Moneague Hotel, Moneague College Campus; Cave Valley Chimney; Our Lady of Perpetual ...
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
Jamaica accepted the convention on January 18, 1980, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. Jamaica has a single World Heritage Site, Blue and John Crow Mountains, which was inscribed in 2015. Country also has two sites on the tentative list. [3]
One special feature of the factory remains is a cut-stone chute which carried cane ... Potosi, Windsor Research Centre, Trelawny, Jamaica. References ...
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [2] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
Coffee River Cave – a large river cave in Manchester Parish in west-central Jamaica, it is 2,800 metres (9,200 ft) in length and at an elevation of 250 metres (820 ft). Dunn's Hole – a large chamber cave in Trelawny Parish, it consists of a very large chamber approximately 200 metres long, 100 metres wide and 80 metres high, located at the ...
During the Late Miocene, the northeastern margin of the Caribbean Plate began to collide with the Bahamas Platform.This caused the formation of a two new strike-slip fault zones between the island of Hispaniola and the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center west of Jamaica, the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone and the Walton fault zone. [2]
The Jamaican moist forests ecoregion covers an area of 8,192 km 2, and covers 85% of the island of Jamaica. It includes the Blue Mountains and John Crow Mountains in eastern Jamaica, and Cockpit Country further to the west. [1] The highest peak on Jamaica is Blue Mountain Peak at 2,256 meters elevation.