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Rio Cobre

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Rio Cobre is a river in Jamaica. Its source is in the Rose Hall Mountain in the north-east of Saint Catherine Parish, the headwaters being a writhing of unnamed, seasonally dry tributaries. The highest of these rise just above the 1,135 feet (346 m) contour. From here it flows to meet the Caribbean Sea into the Hunts Bay. It is dammed by the Rio Cobre Dam just above Spanish Town. The river's most significant feature is perhaps the gorge through which it runs between Bog Walk and northern Spanish Town.

Flows through: Jamaica.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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