It also supports the entire Upper and Lower Black River Many smaller villages depend on water from these Martha Brae and Great rivers, and dozens of invaluable springs Island's only navigable river, the Black Rivers, as well as the Source or headwater The Cockpit area serves as the source or headwater of the Relatively isolated from other habitable areas by its rugged nature. The largest unbroken area of green existing at present, as it is
Satellite photograph of the island shows that the Cockpit Country is Refuge in and around the Cockpit Country. The very features of this rugged and inaccessible area have forĬenturies provided a refuge for much of Jamaica's uniqueīiodiversity, and a haven for runaway slaves, (the Maroons), firstįrom Spanish and then English estates. Side-by-side, steep circular depressions formed by the differentialĮrosion and collapse of old limestone material riddled with caves Manchester, and St Ann - characterised by a profusion of large Several parishes - Trelawny, Westmoreland, St.
The Cockpit Country is a section of the island straddling Groups have correctly described various attributes of the CockpitĬountry. Several interested persons and environmental and stakeholder We, the undersigned biologists, wish to add our voices to the
LETTER OF THE DAY: Biologists speak on Cockpit mining published: Sunday Gleaner | January 21, 2007įor a number of weeks now, the debate on the unique portion of our island called theĬockpit Country, and the intention to undertake prospecting for bauxite resources, has
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