Mona
Mona is a neighbourhood in southeastern Saint Andrew Parish, approximately eight kilometres from Kingston, Jamaica. A former sugarcane plantation, it is the site of a reservoir serving the city of Kingston and the main campus of the University of the West Indies.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood with 2,890 residents
- Description: neighbourhood of Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica
- Also known as: “Mona Heights” and “Mona, Jamaica”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mona High School and Hope Botanical Gardens.
Mona High School
School
Mona High School is a high school in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica. In 2015 the school reportedly had about 1,200 students, and in 2018, the school self-reported that it had 1,460 students.
Hope Botanical Gardens
Garden
Photo: RoadTripWarrior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hope Botanical Gardens, also known as the Royal Botanical Gardens, is a 200-acre park and gardens located in St Andrew, Jamaica.
Jamaica College
School
Jamaica College is a public, Christian, secondary school and sixth form for boys in Kingston, Jamaica. It was established in 1789 by Charles Drax, who was the grand-nephew of wealthy Barbadian sugar planter James Drax.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beverly Hills and Liguanea.
Beverly Hills
Neighborhood
Beverly Hills is an upscale neighbourhood in Kingston, Jamaica. The association can be contacted at:…
Liguanea
Suburb
Liguanea is an area of the island of Jamaica. Its name came from the language of the Arawak people who currently inhabit some of the island's rural areas in Cornwall County. and named it after the iguana lizard that is endemic to the island, revered reptiles…
Vineyard Town
Suburb
Vineyard Town is a neighbourhood in Kingston, Jamaica. Vineyard Town is situated 4 km southwest of Mona.
Mona
- Categories: residential area and locality
- Location: Mona Heights, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.01256° or 18° 0′ 45″ northLongitude
-76.75201° or 76° 45′ 7″ westPopulation
2,890Elevation
191 metres (627 feet)Open location code
77C5267X+25OpenStreetMap ID
way 307381711OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mona” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mona Heights”
- Dutch: “Mona”
- French: “Mona Heights”
- French: “Mona”
- German: “Mona”
- Japanese: “モナ”
- Low German: “Mona”
- Slovenian: “Mona”
- Swedish: “Mona Heights”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Mona”. Photo: owensoft, CC BY 2.0.