Black River
Black River is a coastal town in southwestern Jamaica. It is the parish capital of St Elizabeth and developed as a port around the mouth of the river of the same name.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 4,230 residents
- Description: Jamaican parochial capital
- Also known as: “Black River, Jamaica”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Black River High School.
Black River High School
School
Black River High School is a high school located in Black River, the parish capital of St Elizabeth, Jamaica.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Middle Quarters and White Hall.
Middle Quarters
Village
Middle Quarters is a settlement in Saint Elizabeth Parish in Jamaica. Middle Quarters is situated 9 km north of Black River.
White Hall
Neighborhood
White Hall is a settlement in Jamaica. White Hall is a place with a very small population in the state/region of Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica which is located in the Caribbean. White Hall is situated 10 km north of Black River.
Black River
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Black River, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.02417° or 18° 1′ 27″ northLongitude
-77.84801° or 77° 50′ 53″ westPopulation
4,230Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)United Nations Location Code
JM BLROpen location code
77C425F2+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 9559032114OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Black River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “النهر الأسود”
- Asturian: “Black River”
- Belarusian: “Блэк-Рывер”
- Cebuano: “Black River”
- Chinese: “布莱克里弗”
- Dutch: “Black River (Plaats in Jamaica)”
- Dutch: “Black River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “النهر الاسود”
- Esperanto: “Nigra Rivero”
- French: “Black River”
- Galician: “Black River”
- German: “Black River”
- Greek: “Μπλακ Ρίβερ”
- Hebrew: “בלאק ריבר”
- Igbo: “Osimiri ojii, Jamaica”
- Igbo: “Osimiri ojii”
- Italian: “Black River”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Blak Riva, Jumieka”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Blak Riva”
- Japanese: “ブラック・リバー”
- Northern Frisian: “Black River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Black River”
- Persian: “بلک ریور”
- Persian: “رود سیاه”
- Polish: “Black River”
- Portuguese: “Black River”
- Russian: “Блэк-ривер (Ямайка)”
- Russian: “Блэк-Ривер”
- Spanish: “Black River”
- Swedish: “Black River”
- Ukrainian: “Блек-Ривер”
- Urdu: “بلیک ریور، جمیکا”
- Urdu: “بلیک ریور”
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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 “Black River”. Photo: Johannes49, CC BY 3.0.