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Portmore is built on a generally flat plain facing the Kingston Harbour with an intricate canal system which prevents flooding. [5] Much of the land is reclaimed swamp. [ 5 ] Port Henderson Hill, formerly known as Salt Pond Hill, is visible from neighbouring parishes and was a possible Arawak grave site because the Arawak buried their dead in ...
Kingston is one of the 14 Parishes of Jamaica. [2] Together with neighbouring St. Andrew Parish, it makes up the amalgamated Municipal Unit of Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation. [3] The city of Kingston is the parish and national capital. Kingston Parish is 25 km² in area, with a population of 89,057 at the 2011 census. [1]
Caymanas Race Track, Jamaica's most famous race track, is in St Catherine. St Clair Cave, one of Jamaica's more famous caves, is found in the parish. This large, complex cave contains one of the most notable bat roosts on the island, and is one of the few known historical sites for the possibly extinct bat, Phyllonycteris aphylla.
The parish is located at latitude 18°15'N, and longitude 77°56'W; to the west of Manchester, to the east of Westmoreland, and to the south of St. James and Trelawny.It covers an area of 1,212.4 km 2, making it Jamaica's second-largest parish, smaller only than Saint Ann's 1,212.6 km 2.
Scenes in Kingston after the 1882 fire. Map of Kingston, 1897. Kingston was founded on 22 July 1692, [11] [12] shortly after the 1692 earthquake that devastated Port Royal in 1692; the original section of the city which was situated at the bottom of the Liguanea Plains was laid out to house survivors of that earthquake.
Clarendon is a parish in Jamaica.It is located on the south of the island, roughly halfway between the island's eastern and western ends. Located in the county of Middlesex, it is bordered by Manchester on the west, Saint Catherine in the east, and in the north by Saint Ann.
Trelawny (Jamaican Patois: Trilaani or Chrilaani) is a parish in the county of Cornwall in northwest Jamaica.Its capital is Falmouth.It is bordered by the parishes of Saint Ann in the east, Saint James in the west, and Saint Elizabeth and Manchester in the south.