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Spanish Town
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town and city in the Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica
OverviewAI-generated
Spanish Town is a city in Jamaica, situated within Saint Catherine Parish. It serves as the capital of the parish and was founded by Francisco de Garay. The city’s official name is Panish Tong, and it operates under the local dialing code 876.
The population of Spanish Town is recorded as 131,056, with another source listing it as 145,018. The city is located at an elevation of 33 meters, though another measurement indicates 31 meters. It falls within the America/Jamaica time zone.
Synthesized by Vinony from 40 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Openweathermap, Open Meteo, OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Vinony graph, Geo. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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Place details
- Locality
- Spanish Town
- Region
- Saint Catherine Parish
- Country
- Jamaica
- Population
- 145,018
- Timezone
- America/Jamaica
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Jamaica
- County
- Middlesex
- Parish
- Saint Catherine
- Mayor
- Norman Scott
- Estimate 2021
- 145,018
- Time zone
- UTC-5 (EST)
- Website
- Official Website (2016)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Spanish Town
- Country
- Jamaica
- Located in
- Spanish Jamaica
- Population
- 131056
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00
- Capital of
- Spanish Jamaica
- Founded by
- Francisco de Garay
- Official website
- www.spanishtownjamaica.com
- Image
- St.-Jago-de-la-Vega.JPG
- Dialing code
- 876
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- Commons category
- Spanish Town (Jamaica)
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Spanish Town
- topic's main category
- Category:Spanish Town
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Spanish Town
- P8168
- gulyay-gorod
- different from
- Spanish Town
- P12749
- Chambost-Allières
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Encyclopedic overview
Spanish Town (Jamaican Patois: Spain) is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872. The town is home to numerous memorials, the national archives, and one of the oldest Anglican churches outside England (the others are in Virginia, Maryland, and Bermuda).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spanish Town” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.