Jamaica

Geography
The island is composed primarily of mountainous terrain surrounded by a small strip of coast. Cities are usually set in this coastal plain. The climate in Jamaica is tropical, generally warm and humid, even in mountain areas can be somewhat cooler.
Despite its location, in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, suffers no hurricanes so often as its neighboring islands. This is mainly due toits mountains, that deviate.

-islands, cays and Banks
Apart from the main island of Jamaica includes several smaller groups of islands, shoals, cays and reefs:
-Banco de Pedro (Pedro Bank)
-Keys Pedro (Pedro Cays)
-Keys Puerto Real (Port Royal Cays)
-Morant Keys (Morant Cays)
-Cayo Sandals (Sandals Cay)
-Bogue Islands (Bogue Islands)
-Island Navy (Navy Island)
-Pigeon Island (PigeonIsland)

Economy
Jamaica is a major regional tourist center. Its economy focuses on tourism as well, in the production of sugar and bauxite mining, industrial activities must add the business that was created around the image of Bob Marley, used both for tourism and for the exploitation of reggae music and everything related to it.

Agricultural activity is dedicated to the cultivation ofexport crops such as coffee, snuff, banana and sugar cane and indigenous consumption. In addition is a traditional producer of pepper. Among industrial activities dominate the processing of agricultural products, the manufacture of cement, fertilizers, petroleum products and textiles. However, all these riches not reverse equally over the population, since Jamaica is historically dominated by a fewwealthy families.









Culture and religion

The Jamaican culture is the product of a mixture of cultures that settled on the island of Jamaica. Was formed primarily by the Taino Indians, Spanish settlers, the British missionaries, African blacks and finally the Indian and Chinese communities.
Jamaica is known for its rich culture and music, which have made ​​theisland famous worldwide.
Musical genres ska, reggae, rocksteady, dub, dancehall, ragga ragga and jungle, have all been designed in Jamaica. The most popular music is reggae, with their different styles and blends: dub, dance hall, Raggas, raggamufin, early reggae and roots reggae, released on a large scale by the Jamaican Bob Marley who through his music deepened and made known a culture thatreverberated worldwide. The first of these was the ska genre, "father" of the following, is credited with creating the genre of The Skatalites. Other lesser known music oldest on the island are mento, calypso and the ghost, so it is recognized singer, actress and model Grace Jones who has become an iconic pop.
Protestant 39% (Church of God 21.2%, Baptist 5.3%, Seventh Day Adventist 9%, Pentecostal10.5%, Methodist 2.7%, United Church 2.7%, Anglican 3.7%, 1.1% Bethren, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.6%, Moravian Brethren 1.1%), 10.4% Catholic, 46.9% others and atheists (1995) (300 Jews)
God is Love Pentecostal Church-# 51 Slipe Road (Kingston) Jamaica Specialty Catholic Church (including Rastafarianism) Judaism Salvation Army in Jamaica since 1887.


Food
The Jamaican way of cooking is largelyinfluenced by many different cultures such as African, British, Chinese, Indian, Spanish, Irish, Scottish and more. This rich blend of culture all started in the early establishment of the Taino Indians who used cassava, corn, guavas, roast fish and crabs.

Here are some popular foods: Jerk (chicken, pork, or fish), patties, ackee and saltfish, rice and peas, festival, breadfruit bammy, grilled,roasted yellow yam and goat curry.



Sports

The country's most famous athlete athlete Usain Bolt is the world record in the 100 meters with a time of 9.58 seconds and the 200 meters record with a time of 19.19 seconds. In 2008 he won the gold medals in the Olympic Games in Beijing (Beijing) in 100 meters 200 meters and 4x100. He also competed in several world championships, in Daegu...