Rio Cobre
| Rio Cobre | |
|---|---|
The A1 road crossing the Rio Cobre via the Flat Bridge. | |
Rio Cobre watershed (Interactive map) | |
| Location | |
| Country | Jamaica |
| Region | St Catherine |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Rose Hall Mountain |
| • location | Rose Hall Mountain |
| • coordinates | 17°35′25″N 76°31′21″W / 17.5904°N 76.5226°W |
| • elevation | 1,135 ft (346 m) |
| Mouth | Caribbean Sea |
• location | Kingston Harbour |
• coordinates | 17°59′03″N 76°51′35″W / 17.9840396°N 76.8596649°W |
• elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Length | 51 km (32 mi) |
| Basin size | 145 km2 (56.28 mi2) |
| Width | |
| • minimum | 5 m (16 ft) |
| • average | 50 m (164 ft) |
| • maximum | 100 m (328 ft) |
| Depth | |
| • minimum | 1 m (3.3 ft) |
| • average | 3 m (9.8 ft) |
| • maximum | 12 m (39.4 ft) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Hunts Bay |
| • average | 10 cu ft/s |
| • minimum | 0.1 cu ft/s |
| • maximum | 11o cu ft/s |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Magno River |
| • right | Rio D'Oro, Crawle river, Pedro river, |
The Rio Cobre is a river of Jamaica. Its source is in the Rose Hall Mountain in the north-east of Saint Catherine Parish, the headwaters being a writhing of unnamed, seasonally dry tributaries. The highest of these rise just above the 1,135 feet (346 m) contour. From here it flows to meet the Caribbean Sea into the Hunts Bay. It is dammed by the Rio Cobre Dam just above Spanish Town.
The river's most significant feature is perhaps the gorge through which it runs between Bog Walk and northern Spanish Town.