ATLAS · WORLD HERITAGE · JAMAICA
World Heritage Sites in Jamaica
Jamaica has 2 sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 1 cultural, and 1 mixed. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
By heritage type
Notable sites in Jamaica
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
The site encompasses a rugged and extensively forested mountainous region in the south-east of Jamaica, which provided refuge first for the indigenous Tainos fleeing slavery and then for Maroons (former enslaved peoples). They resisted the European colonial system in this isolated region by estab…
The town of Port Royal is located at the mouth of Kingston Harbour in southeastern Jamaica. It was a major 17th-century English port city. A devastating earthquake in 1692 submerged much of the town under water and sand. Today, its terrestrial and underwater remains offer rare insights into urban…