Bamboo Avenue


Bamboo Avenue

Parish: St. Elizabeth

Bamboo Avenue is located on the main South Coast Highway, between Middle Quarters and Lacovia, in the parish of St Elizabeth. The avenue was planted out with Bambusa Vulgaris a specie of Bamboo which was the largest variety introduced in Jamaica. The avenue is approximately two and a half (2 1/2) miles long with the tall bamboo forming a canopy over it.

 

 

 


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