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
CountryJamaica
"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

References
  1. Map of the County of Middlesex & c. James Robertson, 1804. National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  2. "Jamaica Observer Limited".
  3. 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.

18°22′N 76°54′W


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