Port Maria
Port Maria is the capital town of the Jamaican parish of Saint Mary. Originally named "Puerto Santa Maria", it was the second town established by Spanish settlers in Jamaica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 7,910 residents
- Description: town in Jamaica
- Also known as: “Port Maria La luz”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oracabessa.
Oracabessa
Village
Oracabessa is a small town in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica 16 kilometres east of Ocho Rios. Its population is nearly 7,000. Lit in the afternoons by an apricot light that may have inspired its Spanish name, Oracabeza, or "Golden Head," Oracabessa's commercial district consists of a covered produce market and a few shops and bars. Oracabessa is situated 7 km northwest of Port Maria.
Port Maria
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Port Maria, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
18.37324° or 18° 22′ 24″ northLongitude
-76.89383° or 76° 53′ 38″ westPopulation
7,910Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)United Nations Location Code
JM POAOpen location code
77C594F4+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 3767997593OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Port Maria” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بورت ماريا”
- Asturian: “Port Maria”
- Basque: “Port Maria”
- Bulgarian: “Порт Мария”
- Cebuano: “Port Maria (kapital sa parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Port Maria”
- Chinese: “瑪麗亞港”
- Danish: “Port Maria”
- Dutch: “Port Maria”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بورت ماريا”
- French: “Port Maria”
- German: “Port Maria”
- Greek: “Πορτ Μαρία”
- Hebrew: “פורט מריה”
- Italian: “Port Maria”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Puot Maraya, Jumieka”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Puot Maraya”
- Japanese: “ポート・マリア”
- Japanese: “マリア港”
- Northern Frisian: “Port Maria”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Maria La luz”
- Polish: “Port Maria”
- Portuguese: “Port Maria”
- Russian: “Порт-Мария”
- Slovenian: “Port Maria La luz”
- Slovenian: “Port Maria”
- Spanish: “Port Maria”
- Swedish: “Port Maria (parishhuvudort)”
- Swedish: “Port Maria”
- Ukrainian: “Порт-Марія”
- Urdu: “پورٹ ماریا”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Port Maria”. Photo: De Geo, CC BY-SA 4.0.