Spanish Town
Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 131,000 residents
- Description: town and city in the Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica
- Also known as: “Saint Jago de la Vega”, “Spanish Town, Saint Catherine”, and “Villa de la Vega”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Spanish Town Hospital and Spanish Town railway station.
Spanish Town Hospital
Hospital
Spanish Town Hospital is a hospital in Spanish Town, Jamaica. It is located near the city center.
Spanish Town railway station
Railway station
Spanish Town railway station opened in 1845 and closed in 1992 when all passenger services in Jamaica abruptly ceased. It provided rail services to Kingston and Montego Bay, Port Antonio, Ewarton and New Works.
Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre
Prison
Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre was built to accommodate 120 male inmates. It is operated by the Department of Correctional Services for the Ministry of National Security.
Spanish Town
- Categories: big city, former capital, and locality
- Location: Spanish Town Central, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.9957° or 17° 59′ 45″ northLongitude
-76.9541° or 76° 57′ 15″ westPopulation
131,000Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)United Nations Location Code
JM SPTOpen location code
7795X2WW+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 247716893OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Spanish Town” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Spanish Town”
- Arabic: “سبانيش تاون”
- Armenian: “Սպենիշ թաուն”
- Armenian: “Սփենիշ թաուն”
- Asturian: “Spanish Town”
- Basque: “Spanish Town”
- Belarusian: “Спаніш-Таўн”
- Bengali: “স্প্যানিস টাউন”
- Bulgarian: “Спаниш Таун”
- Catalan: “Spanish Town”
- Chinese: “西班牙鎮”
- Chinese: “西班牙镇”
- Czech: “Spanish Town”
- Danish: “Santiago de la Vega”
- Danish: “Spanish Town”
- Danish: “St. Jago de la Vega”
- Danish: “Villa de la Vega”
- Dutch: “Spanish Town”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سبانيش تاون”
- Esperanto: “Hispanurbo,”
- Esperanto: “Hispanurbo”
- Esperanto: “Spanish Town”
- Estonian: “Spanish Town”
- Finnish: “Spanish Town”
- French: “Spanish Town (Sainte-Catherine)”
- French: “Spanish Town”
- French: “Villa de la Vega”
- German: “Santiago de la Vega”
- German: “Spanish Town”
- German: “Villa de la Vega”
- Greek: “Σπάνις Τάουν”
- Gujarati: “સ્પેનિશ નગર”
- Hebrew: “ספניש טאון”
- Hindi: “स्पैनिश टाउन”
- Hungarian: “Spanish Towns”
- Indonesian: “Spanish Town”
- Irish: “Spanish Town”
- Italian: “Santiago de la Vega”
- Italian: “Spanish Town”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Panish Tong, Jumieka”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Panish Tong, Sin Kiachrin”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Panish Tong”
- Japanese: “サンティアゴ・デ・ラ・ベガ”
- Japanese: “スパニッシュ・タウン”
- Japanese: “スパニッシュタウン”
- Japanese: “ビジャ・デ・ラ・ベガ”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನಿಷ್ ಟೌನ್”
- Korean: “스패니시타운”
- Latvian: “Spaništauna”
- Lithuanian: “Spaniš Taunas”
- Lithuanian: “Spanish Town”
- Malay: “Spanish Town”
- Marathi: “स्पॅनिश नगर”
- Northern Frisian: “Spanish Town”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Spanish Town”
- Norwegian: “Spanish Town”
- Persian: “اسپنیش تاون”
- Polish: “Spanish Town”
- Portuguese: “Santiago de la Vega”
- Portuguese: “Spanish Town”
- Portuguese: “Villa de la Vega”
- Russian: “Спаниш-Таун”
- Russian: “Спэниш-Таун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Spanish Town”
- Silesian: “Spanish Town”
- Sinhala: “ස්පැනිෂ් ටවුන්”
- Slovenian: “Spanish Town”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Española”
- Spanish: “Spanish Town”
- Spanish: “Villa de la Vega”
- Swedish: “Spanish Town”
- Tamil: “ஸ்பாநிஷ் நகரம்”
- Telugu: “స్పానిష్ పట్టణం”
- Thai: “สแปนิช ทาวน์”
- Turkish: “Spanish Town”
- Ukrainian: “Спаніш-Таун”
- Urdu: “سپینش ٹاؤن”
- Venetian: “Spanish Town”
- Vietnamese: “Spanish Town”
- Waray (Philippines): “Spanish Town”
- Welsh: “Spanish Town”
- “Spanish Town”
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Localities in the Area
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