General History: Very few visitors (or Jamaicans for that matter) have actually been to the village of Mocho, nestled deep in the Mocho Mountains of the Clarendon interior. Ask any Jamaican about Mocho, however, and everyone has some comment to make. In Jamaica, the name is used disparagingly to refer to the most provincial behaviour, place or item – not in reference
to the pleasant and industrious rural community, but rather as a comment on the location that was once one of the most remote and inaccessible in Jamaica.

Pronounced “muk-coh”, the village is a typical rural farming community where small farmers and landowners have cultivated their grounds for generations. The majority of people who live in Mocho work in agriculture; either on the vast sugar estates of the Rio Minho Valley, or on their own farms, producing garden vegetables and ground provisions.