Mountain River Cave

The Mountain River Cave located in Cudjoe Hill, St Catherine is one of Jamaica’s rarest treasures. Jamaica has just about 120 rivers and streams and about 70% of the terrain is hilly, made of mostly limestone. Having this in mind it is quite understandable why Jamaica has so many magnificent waterfalls. Many of these rivers originate high in the central mountain range and then rush towards the open seashore. However, on the way to the ocean these large bodies of water may have to climb over stones, fall from high cliffs and tumble down slopes in the process of forming a grand waterfall.

The Mountain River Cave was declared a national monument of Jamaica. The cave is approximately 35-meters long and 10-meters in depth and has many well preserved pictographs which depict birds, fish, turtles and figurative art can be seen on the flat base of the cave and on the walls. In all this limestone cave has 148 of such pictographs which dated back to almost 1,000 years.

This cave also plays home to the amalgamation of 3 rivers forming one great body of crystal clear water. The Mountain Cave River is no less beautiful than the well established rivers of Jamaica. This beautiful body of water is worth the trek to go and see. It appears that the ancestors the Taino Indians used this cave as a place of worship. Of course one can only speculate on what use to happen there, but taking a trip there will give one a feeling of humbleness and bring us closer to our past.

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