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Facts and Figures 

If you’re practical minded or just instinctively curious, here’s some important data. Check it out and learn about the things that help to define Jamaica.

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Old Woman Savanna: In Clarendon, running roughly from Kellits to Crofts Hill there is an area known as Old Woman's Savanna. It appeared so on earliest maps and apparently the old woman was a Spaniard -who refused to leave Jamaica when the English captured the island in 1655, even though her house and property in Spanish Town were seized. She received permission to retire to her hato in the country thus giving the name to the area
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