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Black River en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. One of the longest rivers in Jamaica; it is 33.2 miles long.
  2. A town located at the mouth of the Black River, the parish capital of Saint Elizabeth parish, Jamaica.
  3. A river in Vietnam and Yunnan, China.
    • The Upper Red River veers northwards to China, but we take a sneaky left-hand turn down the Da River (Black River). 2017 July 1, Colin Hinshelwood, “Cruise Vietnam’s scenic and lush Red River”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2017:
    • The Black River Watershed is a tributary system of the Red River. Like the Red River, the Black River has its source in China and flows out through Vietnam. 1996, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies: Theme 2, Cultural crisis and the Thai capitalist transformation, →OCLC, page 131:
    • Specific data on the flow of the Red River near Hanoi was impossible to obtain but last month Le Monde, the Paris newspaper, published a dispatch predicting that the flow of the Black River, a main tributary, would reach 32,500 cubic meters a second at Sontay, about 25 miles northwest of Hanoi (a cubic meter is about 35 cubic feet). 1972 July 14, Seymour M. Hersh, “Dikes in Hanoi Area Represent 2,000‐Year Effort to Tame Rivers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2018:
  4. Rivers and settlements in the United States, including: ▸ Eight rivers in Michigan.
  5. Rivers and settlements in the United States, including: ▸ Two rivers in Minnesota.
  6. Rivers and settlements in the United States, including: ▸ A river with two branches in Ohio, a tributary of Lake Erie.
  7. Rivers and settlements in the United States, including: ▸ A river in west-central Wisconsin, a tributary of the Mississippi.
  8. Rivers and settlements in the United States, including: ▸ A large number of other rivers in the United States, listed under Black River#United States.
  9. Rivers and settlements in the United States, including: ▸ An unincorporated community in Alcona Township, Alcona County, Michigan.
  10. Rivers and settlements in the United States, including: ▸ A township in Pennington County, Minnesota, named after the Red Lake River tributary.
  11. Rivers and settlements in the United States, including: ▸ A village in Jefferson County, New York.
  12. Rivers and settlements in the United States, including: ▸ An unincorporated community in the town of Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin.
  13. A locality in Circular Head Council, north western Tasmania, Australia.

Deriveds

Black River Falls

Relateds

Río Negro · Heihe

Synonyms

Lixian River (from Mandarin Chinese, upper reaches) · Sông Đà (from Vietnamese)