Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee flavor base of Tia Maria coffee liqueur. Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is a globally protected certification mark, meaning only coffee certified by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica can be labeled as such. It comes from a recognised growing region in the Blue Mountain region of Jamaica, and its cultivation is monitored by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica. The Blue Mountains are generally located between Kingston to the south and Port Antonio to the north. Rising to , they are some of the highest mountains in the Caribbean. The climate of the region is cool and misty with high
Sand Mountain blue while the subspecies "E. p. arenamontana" has been labeled as critically imperiled, at great risk of extinction. In 2004 a petition was filed to investigate the status of the Sand Mountain blue and whether it should be placed on the endangered or threatened species lists. Currently Sand Mountain blues are referred to as "rare" because of their small geographical distribution around the Sand Mountain dune. In March 2007, several off-road vehicle trails were closed off in order to protect the species and its host plant from intrusion. Sand Mountain blue The Sand Mountain blue ("Euphilotes pallescens arenamontana") is a butterfly