River
Black River
53 km from source to mouth · Jamaica.
JamaicaFlows into Caribbean Sea2nd longest in Jamaica
In numbers
Length
53km
Average flow
19m³/s
Basin
918km²
Drop
131m
from 129 m to -2 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
53 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 129 m
- 1 kmSiloah2,725 people
- 11 kmMaggotty1,371 people
- 35 kmLacovia2,760 people
- 53 kmBlack River4,229 people
- 53 kmCaribbean Seaat -2 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Jamaica
At the mouth it carries 19 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 134 seconds. It drops from 129 m to -2 m, 2.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 918 km², about the size of HK.
Where to start
- Black RiverLargest city on its banks · 4,229 people
- Sangster International Airport (MBJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 54 km from the cityCar hire at MBJ airport (Montego Bay)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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Along the river
Black River: what you find on the way
- 6WaterfallsMaggotty Falls, Breadnut Valley Falls and 4 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Black River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
3beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Beaches (3)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Great Bay21 km away29.6°C
- Billys Bay17 km away29.6°C
- Scotts Cove12 km away · cove29.7°C
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Cockpit9.3 km away
- Bogue Hill6.8 km away
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Black River in pictures
CubaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q880496) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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