Cane River | |
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Country | Jamaica |
Physical characteristics | |
Main source | 3,500 ft (1,100 m) [1] 18°00′54″N76°41′34″W / 18.015039°N 76.692746°W [1] |
2nd source | 2,700 ft (820 m) [1] 18°01′17″N76°42′21″W / 18.0213439°N 76.7057276°W [1] |
River mouth | Sea level [1] 17°56′37″N76°41′50″W / 17.943574°N 76.697134°W Coordinates: 17°56′37″N76°41′50″W / 17.943574°N 76.697134°W [1] |
The Cane River rises at twin sources in the vicinity of Derby Peak in eastern Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica from where it flows south to the Caribbean Sea. [1]
Saint Andrew is a parish, situated in the southeast of Jamaica in the county of Surrey. It lies north, west and east of Kingston, and stretches into the Blue Mountains. In the 2011 census, it had 573,369, the highest population of any of the parishes in Jamaica. George William Gordon, one of Jamaica's seven National Heroes, was born in this parish.
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and south west, to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba, to the east by the Lesser Antilles, and to the south by the north coast of South America.
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The White River (Jamaica) is a river of Jamaica.
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