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The Mocho Mountains are a mountain range in south-central Jamaica.[1] It has been described as the "geographical center of Jamaica."[2]

Mocho Mountains
Whitney Estate, 1820 The Mocho Mountains are in the background
Highest point
Coordinates	18°03′N 77°21′W
Geography
Mocho Mountains
Country	Jamaica
Region	South central

The area was historically a site for bauxite mining, which led to deforestation in the area.[3]

Notes

Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition, p. 754.
"History of Clarendon" (PDF).
Brown, Desmond (December 2013). ""We in the Caribbean Are Living Climate Change"". IPS News.

References

Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 1997. ISBN 0-87779-546-0.

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Bays and coves	Cagway Bay Orange Bay (Hanover Parish) Orange Bay (Portland Parish) Xtabi
Beaches	Alligator Pond Billys Bay Bluefields Beach Boston Beach Calabash Bay Doctor's Cave Beach Club Font Hill Beach Frenchmans Bay Frenchman's Cove Great Pedro Bay Gut River Hellshire Beach Long Bay Negril Ocean View Beach Treasure Beach Whitehouse Beach Winifred Beach
Caves	Jamaican Caves Organisation Bad Hole Belmont Carambie Coffee River Drip Dunn's Hole Gourie Green Grottos Hutchinson's Hole Jackson's Bay Morgans Pond Hole Mouth Maze Oxford Smokey Hole Thatchfield Great Windsor Great Xtabi
Harbours	Kingston Harbour
Headlands	Half Moon Point Morant Point Palisadoes Portland Point South Negril Point
Islands	Morant Cays Navy Island, Jamaica Pedro Bank Port Royal Cays Sandals Cay
Mountains	Blue Mountain Peak Blue Mountains (Jamaica) John Crow Mountains Juan de Bolas Mountain Mocho Mountains
Rivers	Alligator Hole Annotto Back Black Broad Buff Bay Cabarita Cane Cave Coleburns Gully Dry Dunn Ferry Flint (Hanover) Flint (St Mary) Great Green Island Guava Gut Hectors Hope Juan de Bolas Llandovery Lucea East Lucea West Martha Brae Milk Montego Morant Morgans Negril North South Negro New Savannah One Eye Oracabessa Orange Plantain Garden Port Maria Rio Bueno Rio Cobre Rio Doro Rio Grande Rio Magno Rio Minho Rio Nuevo Rio Pedro Roaring Salt Smith Spanish Stony Sweet Swift Thicket Wag Water White YS Yallahs
Straits	Jamaica Channel
Waterfalls	Dunn's River Falls Fish Dunn Falls Mahoe Falls Mayfield Falls Milford Falls Mountain River Falls Reach Falls Reggae Falls Somerset Falls Tacky Falls Y. S. Falls
Other	Cockpit Country

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Earthquakes	1692 (Port Royal) 1907 (Kingston)
Hurricanes	Allen Charlie Dean Emily Gilbert Gustav Iris Ivan Lili
Tropical storms	Gilda
Tropical depressions	Fourteen

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