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River in Jamaica

The Rio Nuevo is a river in Jamaica. It runs through the parish of Saint Mary, meeting the Caribbean Sea in the Rio Nuevo Bay, on the north Jamaican coast. In 1658, it was the site of the Battle of Rio Nuevo between Spanish and English forces, the largest battle to have been fought on Jamaican soil.

References

Black, Clinton V. (1965). The Story of Jamaica: From Prehistory to the Present (Rev. ed.). London: Collins. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0002117685.

Ford, Jos C. and Finlay, A.A.C. (1908).The Handbook of Jamaica. Jamaica Government Printing Office

v t e List of rivers of Jamaica
Alligator Hole Annotto Back Black Broad Buff Bay Cabarita Cane Cave Coleburns Gully Dry Dunn Ferry Flint (Hanover) Flint (St Mary) Great Green Island Guava Gut Hectors Hope Llandovery Lucea East Lucea West Martha Brae Milk Montego Morant Morgans Negro (St. Mary) Negro (St. Thomas) New Savannah North Negril One Eye Oracabessa Orange Pagee Plantain Garden Port Maria Rio Bueno Rio Cobre Rio Doro Rio Grande Rio Magno Rio Minho Rio Nuevo Rio Pedro Roaring Rotten Gut River Salt Smith South Negril Spanish Stony Sweet Swift Thicket Wag Water White YS Yallahs

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