Lluidas Vale, Jamaica
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Lluidas Vale, also known as Worthy Park, is a settlement in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica. It has a population of 3,413 as of 2009.[1]
The name of the settlement either refers to the Spanish term luzida, meaning 'happy' or 'fine', or lluvias, meaning 'rains'.[2]
Lluidas Vale, whose elevations range from 1,500 feet (460 m) to 3,250 feet (990 m), is bordered by Ewarton and Swansea Coffee Mountain.[3] A church is located at the heart of Lluidas Vale.[3] The Lluidas Vales Cave is located 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) southwest of the parish and near the Lluidas Sinkhole.[4] Lluidas Vales has an abundance of sugarcane fields[5] and also has a wide range of limestone karst.[6] In particular, the settlement is surrounded by kegelkarst.[7]
Most of the vegetation in Lluidas Vale has been cleared for agricultural purposes, although the wet limestone forest remains largely intact.
Trees commonly found in Lluidas Vale include:
- Terminalia latifolia
- Cedrela odorata
- Nectandra trees
- fig (Ficus) trees
Lluidas Vale is also home to a variety of birds including:
- Podiceps dominicus
- Podilymbus podiceps
- Butorides virescens
- Hydranassa tricolor
- Florida caerulea
- Ardeola ibis
- Egretta thula
- Nyctanassa violacea
- Cathartes aura
- Buteo jamaicensis
- Falco sparverius
- Porzana carolina
- Porphyrula martinica
- Gallinula chloropus
- Fulica americana
- Jacana spinosa
- Charadrius vociferus
- Columba leucocephala
- Zenaida aurita
- Zenaida asiatica
- Columbigallina passerina
- Leptotila jamaicensis
- Geotrygon montana
- Geotrygon versicolor
- Amazona collaria
- Amazona agilis
- Aratinga nana
- Forpus passerinus
- Hyetornis pluvialis
- Saurothera vetula
- Crotophaga ani
- Tyto alba
- Pseudoscops grammicus
- Nyctibius griseus
- Chordeiles minor
- Streptoprocne zonaris
- Cypseloides niger
- Tachornis phoenicobia
- Anthracothorax mango
- Trochilus polytmus
- Mellisuga minima
- Todus todus
- Centurus radiolatus
- Sphyrapicus varius
- Platypsaris niger
- Tyrannus dominicensis
- Tyrannus caudifasciatus
- Myiarchus stolidus
- Myiarchus barbirostris
- Myiarchus validus
- Contopus caribaeus
- Hirundo rustica
- Petrochelidon fulva
- Corvus jamaicensis
- Mimus polyglottos
- Dumetella carolinensis
- Turdus jamaicensis
- Turdus aurantius
- Myadestes genibarbis
- Sturnus vulgaris
- Vireo modestus
- Vireo altiloquus
- Vireo osburni
- Mniotilta varia
- Helmitheros vermivorus
- Parula americana
- Dendroica magnolia
- Dendroica caerulescens
- Dendroica tigrina
- Dendroica virens
- Dendroica striata
- Dendroica pharetra
- Seiurus aurocapillus
- Setophaga ruticilla
- Coereba flaveola
- Euneornis campestris
- Pyrrhuphonia jamaica
- Spindalis zena
- Piranga olivacea
- Quiscalus niger
- Icterus leucopteryx
- Icterus galbula
- Sicalis flaveola
- Loxigilla violacea
- Tiaris olivacea
- Tiaris bicolor
- Loxipasser anoxanthus
- Ammodramus savannarum
- "Jamaica: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population". World Gazetteer. Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2009.
- "Place Names in Jamaica". National Library of Jamaica. 9 May 2020.
- Raymond M. Wright; Edward Robinson (1993). Biostratigraphy of Jamaica. Geological Society of America. p. 425. ISBN 978-0-8137-1182-9.
- JAMAICA 1ED. Lonely Planet Publications. 1996. p. 480. ISBN 978-0-86442-372-6.
- Trevor A. Jackson (2002). Caribbean Geology: Into the Third Millenium: Transactions of the Fifteenth Caribbean Geological Conference. University of the West Indies Press. p. 275. ISBN 978-976-640-100-9.
- Cave Research Group of Great Britain (1967). Transactions. p. 8.