Jamaica
The island of is the third largest Caribbean island. It is in
a group of islands called the greater antilles. It has an area of 10 991
km squared or 4 244 sq. miles. spans 230 km east to west and from
80-36 from north to south. It is third only to Cuba, which is the largest,
and Hispaniola which is the second largest island. Jamaica lies in the
Caribbean sea which is a part of the much larger Atlantic ocean. The
island is 960 km south of Florida, 160 km southwest of Haiti, and 140 km
south of Cuba.
Jamaica is mainly a mountainous island but there are 320 km of fine
sandy beaches, swamps, moist fern- forests, sprawling open plains, plateaus,
rushing rivers, and magnificent ...
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is ringed by plains separated by mountain and
sea.
The country is divided into three counties. They are Cornwall to the
west, Middlesex is central, and Surrey is to the east. Middlesex is the
largest county. Jamaica is also divided into 14 parishes which are
basically like provinces or states. The parishes are Kingston, St. Andrew,
St. Thomas, Portland, St. Mary, St. Ann, Trelawny, St. James, Hanover,
Westmoreland, St. Elizabeth, Manchester, Clarendon, and St. Catherine.
Jamaica is mainly a tropical climate. During the course of the year,
Jamaica has no real winter whatsoever. The average yearly temperature
ranges from 27 degrees celsius to 32 degrees celsius. It is cooler in
hills, around 20 to 25 degrees and it is known to dip below 10 degrees in
the blue mountains. Although it is hot in the day, light ocean breezes
result in making the island more comfortable in the day and cooler breezes
blow down from the Blue Mountains at night.
Rain falls in Jamaica ...
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of the
produce raised are bananas, sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, coconut, pimento,
ackee, nutmeg, & breadfruit.
Jamaica has many animals although it boasts only one native mammal,
the coney, which is a wild rabbit. The mongoose is large rodent
originating from india. It was introduced to Jamaica in 1872 to control
the problem of snakes and rats in the cane fields and has done an adequate
job since then. Most of the snakes have disappeared from Jamaica except for
a few non poisonous ones which look more like worms than snakes. In
Jamaica, as well as many other caribbean islands there are an abundant
population of small harmless lizards. There are over 200 species on the
island. ...
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