Black River

Black River

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.
   • 1972 July 14, Seymour M. Hersh, “Dikes in Hanoi Area Represent 2,000‐Year Effort to Tame Rivers”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 February 2018‎^[2]:

     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).

   • 1996, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Thai Studies: Theme 2, Cultural crisis and the Thai capitalist transformation‎^[3], →OCLC, page 131:

     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.

   • 2017 July 1, Colin Hinshelwood, “Cruise Vietnam’s scenic and lush Red River”, in CNN‎^[4], archived from the original on 25 June 2017‎^[5]:

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

4. Rivers and settlements in the United States, including:
   1. Eight rivers in Michigan.
   2. Two rivers in Minnesota.
   3. A river in west-central Wisconsin, a tributary of the Mississippi.
   4. A large number of other rivers in the United States, listed under Black River#United States.
   5. An unincorporated community in Alcona Township, Alcona County, Michigan.
   6. A township in Pennington County, Minnesota, named after the Red Lake River tributary.
   7. A village in Jefferson County, New York.
   8. An unincorporated community in the town of Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin.

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

• Black River Falls (Wisconsin)

• Heihe
• Río Negro

• Black River, in Encyclopædia Britannica
• “Black River, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Black River”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Black River” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Black River”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 445, column 1