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.The town was named after Abraham Blauvelt, a Dutch-Jewish pirate, privateer, and explorer of Central America and the western Caribbean.

Type: Settlement
Category: Human Settlement
Latitude: 18.1665° or 18° 9' 59" north
Longitude: -78.02309° or 78° 1' 23" west
Elevation: 18 metres (59 feet)
Population: 2830
Parish: Westmoreland
County: Cornwall
Country: Jamaica
Region: Caribbean, West Indies (W.I.)
Continent: North America