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
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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]

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