River
Rio Minho
92 km from source to mouth · Jamaica.
JamaicaFlows into Caribbean Sea1st longest in Jamaica
In numbers
Length
92km
Average flow
5.7m³/s
Basin
1,700km²
Drop
184m
from 186 m to 2 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
92 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 3 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 186 m
- 7 kmChapelton4,514 people
- 28 kmMay Pen44,755 people
- 53 kmRocky Point3,152 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 5.7 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 441 seconds. It drops from 186 m to 2 m, 2.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,700 km², about the size of GP.
Where to start
- May PenLargest city on its banks · 44,755 people
- Tinson Pen Airport (KTP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 45 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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Rio Minho 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.
2beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
1island off the mouthIslandyas
Beaches (2)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Farquhars Beach14 km away29.5°C
- Barnswell Beach15 km away29.4°C
Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Sunbury Hill10 km away
- Kenkoo Hill7.0 km away
Islands off the mouth (1)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Great Goat Island26 km away
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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.
CubaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2154401) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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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