Oristan

Oristán is a name preserved in accounts of Indigenous Jamaica at the time of the Spanish arrival. The island’s Taíno-speaking people lived in communities whose leaders and settlements formed networks across the coast and interior. They cultivated cassava and drew on the surrounding sea for fish. Oristán belongs to this earlier geography, recorded as European voyages brought new and disruptive encounters to the island.

The later city of Montego Bay lies here.