Rio Cobre Dam

The Rio Cobre Dam is a diversion dam on the Rio Cobre near Spanish Town in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica. It is owned by the National Irrigation Commission. The primary purpose of the dam is to divert water into a canal on its right bank for the irrigation of up to 12,000 ha to the south. It also provides municipal water to Spanish Town. The scheme contains more than 48 km of canals and waters sugar cane, bananas and cattle. ()