Montego Bay

Montego Bay is the capital of the parish of St. James and is likewise Jamaica's simplest other officially included metropolis, called The Second City or greater extensively known as MoBay in neighborhood lingo and every now and then Bay by way of the locals. The city is but the fourth biggest city place by means of populace after Kingston, Spanish Town and Portmore, all of which form the Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area, domestic to over half of one million human beings.

As a result, Montego Bay is the second one-largest Anglophone metropolis within the Caribbean, after primate town, Kingston. Montego Bay is a popular visitor destination providing responsibility-unfastened buying, a cruise line terminal and several beaches and resorts. The town is served by means of the Donald Sangster International Airport, the busiest airport within the Anglophone Caribbean, which is placed in the professional metropolis limits.

The town is enclosed in a watershed, drained via numerous rivers consisting of the Montego River. When Christopher Columbus for the primary time visited the island in 1494, he named the bay Golfo de Buen Tiempo. The call "Montego Bay" is believed to have originated as a corruption of the Spanish word manteca, allegedly because throughout the Spanish period it turned into the port in which lard, leather-based and red meat had been exported. Jamaica was a colony of Spain from 1511 till 1655, while Oliver Cromwell's Caribbean expedition, the Western Design, drove the Spanish from the island.