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Blue and John Crow Mountains

Rugged, forested mountains in south-east Jamaica that sheltered first the indigenous Taino fleeing enslavement and later the Maroons, formerly enslaved people who resisted the colonial system by building the network of trails, hiding places and settlements known as the Nanny Town Heritage Route.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1655 CE mainstream
  Maroon communities begin forming in the mountains after resisting English colonization source
• 2015 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a mixed cultural/natural UNESCO World Heritage Site, Jamaica's first source

Where

18.0667° N, 76.5667° W

Sources

• https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/blue-and-john-crow-mountains-jamaica

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