Topology reminiscent of the shape of cock fighting dens.
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Cockpit Country is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Ann, Manchester and the northern tip of Clarendon parishes in Jamaica. The land is marked by steep-sided hollows, as much as 120 metres (390 ft) deep in places, which are separated by conical hills and ridges. Maroons who had escaped from plantations used the difficult territory for its natural defences to develop communities outside the control of Spanish or British colonists.
CockpitCountry is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Ann, Manchester and the northern tip of Clarendon parishes in Jamaica....
A cockpit or flight deck is the area, on the front part of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. The cockpit of an aircraft...
slavery was abolished in 1838. The Windward Maroons and those from the CockpitCountry resisted conquest in the First Maroon War (c. 1728 to 1740), which...
"fertile" areas as "protected". Among the island's protected areas are the CockpitCountry, Hellshire Hills, and Litchfield forest reserves. In 1992, Jamaica's...
crepuscular behavior under certain conditions. Found in Jamaica in the CockpitCountry, historically once prevalent throughout much of Jamaica, notably in...
African slaves would frequently escape to Maroon territory, known as CockpitCountry. Over the first seventy-six years of British rule, skirmishes between...
the rugged terrain of the CockpitCountry, one of the world's most dramatic examples of karst topography. The CockpitCountry is pockmarked with steep-sided...
of St. Elizabeth Parish on the island of Jamaica. It is located in CockpitCountry, where Jamaican Maroons and indigenous Taíno established a fortified...
collected several times per second; the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) preserves the recent history of the sounds in the cockpit, including the conversation of the...
in the Blue Mountains in the eastern end of the island, and in the CockpitCountry in the west. They were known as the Windward Maroons and the Leeward...
Serras allied with the Spanish guerrillas on the western end of the CockpitCountry, while those under Juan de Bolas established themselves in modern-day...
the Blue Mountains and John Crow Mountains in eastern Jamaica, and CockpitCountry further to the west. The highest peak on Jamaica is Blue Mountain Peak...
slavery to Cuba. However, a few hundred stayed out in the forests of the CockpitCountry, and they joined other runaway communities. In 1798, a slave named...
Nicholas Shoumatoff who joined him on three expeditions to the wild CockpitCountry in the late 1930s. ([1]) Avinoff's groundbreaking research on the biogeography...
one of the three main valleys in Jamaica. The valley is located in CockpitCountry and averages 443 feet above sea level, with a dry sub-humid (0.5 -...
these Maroon communities in the mountains of eastern Jamaica, or the CockpitCountry in the west of the island. Up to the 1650s under Spanish rule, enslaved...
than a true mountain range, they form the eastern boundary of the CockpitCountry. This is also the mountain that people used to go and pray. The Dry...
flowering plant in the euphorb family, Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to the CockpitCountry of Jamaica. The authors of a 2008 publication reclassified the species...
grackle. The species is endemic to Jamaica, where it is restricted to CockpitCountry, some central areas and the Blue and John Crow Mountains. The Jamaican...
(2019-09-20). "Save CockpitCountry Day – Jamaica Joins The September 20 Global Climate Strike With A Call To Protect All Of CockpitCountry". Jamaicans.com...
rum distillery, near the rough CockpitCountry in the north of the parish, is also a tourist destination. The Cockpit area was the site of Maroon settlements...
000 ft) above sea level. The southern section of Trelawny is part of the CockpitCountry, and is uninhabitable. It is therefore a natural reserve for flora...
mainstream event; in some countries it is regulated by law, or forbidden outright. Two owners place their gamecock in the cockpit. The cocks fight until...
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