River
Rio Cobre
51 km from source to mouth · Jamaica.
JamaicaFlows into Caribbean Sea3rd longest in Jamaica
In numbers
Length
51km
Average flow
14m³/s
Basin
640km²
Drop
109m
from 109 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
51 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 109 m
- 2 kmLinstead20,660 people
- 10 kmBog Walk12,873 people
- 17 kmFlat Bridge
- 30 kmSpanish Town145,018 people
- 51 kmCaribbean Seaat 0 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 14 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 180 seconds. It drops from 109 m to 0 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 640 km².
Where to start
- Spanish TownLargest city on its banks · 145,018 people
- Tinson Pen Airport (KTP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 14 km from the cityCar hire at KIN airport (Kingston)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
Rio Cobre: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.2 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Rio Cobre 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.
5beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
12mountains at the sourcePeakyas
3islands off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (5)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Gunboat Beach11 km away29.4°C
- Hellshire Beach12 km away29.4°C
- Sugarman Beach12 km away29.4°C
- Buccaneer Beach10 km away29.4°C
- Walkers Bay23 km away · cove29.4°C
Mountains at the source (12)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Juan de Bolas Mountain12 km away836m
- Thetford Mountain8.3 km away
- Cudjoe Hill13 km away
- Mount Diablo8.5 km away
- Holly Mount9.4 km away
- Mount Hoyle12 km away
- Juan de Bolas12 km away
- Knollis Mountain8.6 km away
4 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (3)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Jamaica16 km away11,190km²
- Great Goat Island26 km away
- Lime Cay8.8 km away0.0km²
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
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
Rio Cobre in pictures
Cuba
HaitiWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2154356) · 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, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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