Otram River
The Otram River, formerly the Port Maria River or the Port Maria Western River, is a river in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica. It reaches the sea in the parish capital of Port Maria and contributes to flooding in that town.[2]
| Otram River | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | Jamaica |
"Port Maria Westernmost River" (centre) on James Robertson's map of 1804[1]
It is joined at Trinity by the Negro River, where an aqueduct, completed in 1797, of over a mile's length once drew water from the Otram to supply Trinity sugar plantation there.[3]
See also
- List of rivers of Jamaica
- Paggee River
References
- Map of the County of Middlesex & c. James Robertson, 1804. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Port-Maria-flooding-in-the-spotlight-again_16457468
- Higman, B. W. (2001). Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press. pp. 116–118. ISBN 978-976-640-113-9.
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