Meaning of Black River | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
4. Rivers and settlements in the United States, including:
5. Eight rivers in Michigan.
6. Two rivers in Minnesota.
7. A river with two branches in Ohio, a tributary of Lake Erie.
8. A river in west-central Wisconsin, a tributary of the Mississippi.
9. A large number of other rivers in the United States, listed under Black River#United States.
10. An unincorporated community in Alcona Township, Alcona County, Michigan.
11. A township in Pennington County, Minnesota, named after the Red Lake River tributary.
12. A village in Jefferson County, New York.
13. An unincorporated community in the town of Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin.
14. A locality in Circular Head Council, north western Tasmania, Australia.

Examples

“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).”

“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.”

“The Upper Red River veers northwards to China, but we take a sneaky left-hand turn down the Da River (Black River).”

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