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HERITAGE HIKES & WALKSMOUNTAIN RIVER CAVE
Mountain River Cave is hidden in the lime stone cliff in Macka Tree district a few miles beyond Guanaboa Vale, St. Catherine. Inside this cave are the earliest Jamaican paintings. An Indian Artist using black pigment created a group of pictographs on the flat underside of the cave's roof. The exact age is unknown, but it probably dates back to some 500-1300 years ago.
The site was first reported in 1897 by J.F. Duerden. In 1976, the site was acquired by the Archaeological Society and was developed with the assistance of Alpart, Scotia Bank, Alcan, Alpart Farms, Berger and other individual contributions. The Jamaican Defence Force assisted, by designing and installing a protection grill. Access to the cave is by a footpath about a mile long. The track to the cave requires sturdy shoes or boots with firm grip. The track descends steeply to cross the mountain river and through agricultural crops, with birds nesting above. |
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Hidden deep in the hills of the Parish of St. Catherine is a small cave. This remote site is unique with its drawings done some 1000 years or more ago by our ancestors, the Tainos. These petroglyphs are worth the walk down to the river and up to the cave to view both history and the cultural retention of a set of forebears that have vanished from our island home by various tragic circumstance. Included in this are a visit to the Guanaboa Vale church where the National Hero Manley's family may have worshipped. A Spanish Town tour is also included.
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