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Portmore

Portmore is a large coastal town in southern Jamaica in Saint Catherine, and a place of residence for people working in the neighbouring cities of and Spanish Town.
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  • Type: City with 170,000 residents
  • Description: city in the Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica
  • Also known as: “Portmore, Saint Catherine”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Caymanas Park and Fort Augusta Adult Correctional Centre.

is Jamaica's only race track. It was historically a sugarcane estate in the Colony of Jamaica. It was originally owned by the Ellis family, including George Ellis and Charles Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford, who made substantial profits from sugar and slavery.

Prison
, formerly Fort Augusta Prison, is Jamaica's only prison for women. It was built to accommodate 250 female inmates but has held over 280 on occasions.

Portmore

Latitude
17.9718° or 17° 58′ 19″ north
Longitude
-76.8738° or 76° 52′ 26″ west
Population
170,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
7795X4CG+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 290803535
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3488981
Wiki­data ID
Q644663
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Portmore” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ፖርትሞር”
  • Arabic: “بورتمور”
  • Armenian: “Պորտմոր”
  • Asturian: “Portmore”
  • Azerbaijani: “Portmor”
  • Basque: “Portmore”
  • Bengali: “পোর্ট্মোরে”
  • Bulgarian: “Портмор”
  • Catalan: “Portmore”
  • Cebuano: “Portmore”
  • Chinese: “波特莫爾”
  • Danish: “Portmore”
  • Dutch: “Portmore”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورتمور”
  • Esperanto: “Portmore”
  • Finnish: “Nyala”
  • French: “Portmore”
  • German: “Portmore”
  • Greek: “Πορτμόρ”
  • Greek: “Πόρτμορ”
  • Gujarati: “પોર્ટમોર”
  • Hebrew: “פורטמור”
  • Hindi: “पोर्टोर”
  • Hungarian: “Portmore”
  • Indonesian: “Portmore”
  • Irish: “Portmore”
  • Italian: “Portmore”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Puotmuor”
  • Japanese: “ポートモア”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟ್ಮೋರ್”
  • Korean: “포트모어”
  • Latvian: “Portmora”
  • Lithuanian: “Portmoras”
  • Malay: “Portmore”
  • Marathi: “पोर्टमोअर”
  • Moksha: “Портмор”
  • Northern Frisian: “Portmore”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Portmore”
  • Norwegian: “Portmore”
  • Persian: “پرتمر، جامائیکا”
  • Persian: “پرتمر”
  • Polish: “Portmore”
  • Portuguese: “Portmore”
  • Russian: “Портмор”
  • Scots: “Portmore”
  • Silesian: “Portmore”
  • Sinhala: “පොර්ට්මෝර්”
  • Spanish: “Portmore”
  • Swedish: “Portmore”
  • Tamil: “போர்ட்மோரே”
  • Telugu: “పోర్ట్ మోర్”
  • Thai: “พอร์ตมอร์”
  • Turkish: “Portmore”
  • Ukrainian: “Портмор”
  • Urdu: “پورتموری”
  • Urdu: “پورٹمور، جمیکا”
  • Venetian: “Portmore”
  • Vietnamese: “Portmore”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Portmore, Jamaica”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Portmore”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Portmore”. Photo: Raw9345, Public domain.