Swift River (Jamaica)
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The Swift River is a river of Jamaica
.The river had massive floods during the 1930s {1932-1940},which nearly brought the only major settlement,which shares the same name, to extinction
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
.The river had massive floods during the 1930s {1932-1940},which nearly brought the only major settlement,which shares the same name, to extinction
Extinction
In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms , normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point...
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