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Introducing Oracabessa
Taking its name from the Spanish oro cabeza (golden head) Oracabessa, 21km east of Ocho Rios, is a small one-street, one-storey village with a vague aura of a Wild West town. The street itself is lined with Caribbean vernacular architecture, its wooden houses trimmed with fretwork. This was a major port for shipping bananas in the 19th-century, yet while the boom era has passed, the town itself is far from derelict.
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Below Oracabessa is the marina (formerly a banana-loading port), in the lee of a tombolo on whose western flank pirogues and fishing boats bob at anchor.
Last updated: Oct 20, 2009
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