The Swift River (Jamaica) is a river of
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
. The river had massive floods during the 1930s , which nearly brought the only major settlement, which shares the same name, to
extinction
Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...
.
See also
*
List of rivers of Jamaica
This is a list of rivers of Jamaica, arranged from west to east, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
North Coast
* South Negril River
**Unnamed
*Middle River
**Unnamed
**Unnamed
* North Negril River
*Orange Rive ...
References
GEOnet Names Server*
OMC MapCIA Map*Ford, Jos C. and Finlay, A.A.C. (1908).''The Handbook of Jamaica.'' Jamaica Government Printing Office
Rivers of Jamaica
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