Jamaica’s highest elevation is that of the Blue Mountains, with its mountaintop the Blue Mountain Peak being the highest, which measures at 2, 256 meters. This stretch of mountains is located in the parishes of St. Andrew, St. Thomas, Portland and St. Mary. (Fig B) (Wikipedia 2007)My neighbors where I grew up in high school his mom Beth was Jamaican and the one of the oldest Sons mkali was 2 years my senior but his brother chunga and I started our cannabis career together, I don't really like public schools for children here in my home country but it did allow me to meet chunga and his family so I could be grateful for that. Chungas Mom's family used to sell Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee and I'll never forget the discussions I would sit back in the backyard and over here about how rare the soil was on that mountain and other parts of the island it's nice to see this video
The Department of Botany from the Smithsonian tells us that; “The Blue Mountains have a complex geology of both volcanic and marine influences. The rocks are igneous and sedimentary of origin with the soils being mainly siliceous.”