JAMAICA

JAMAICA.

Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Ríos.
Third stamp in a set of 5, issued on 02.10.1972.
Face value: 30 cents of Jamaican dollar.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 31 x 38 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 360.
- Scott No. 354.
- StampWorld No. 363.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 355.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 364.

Dunn's River Falls (also known in Spanish as Las Chorreras) is a famous waterfall near Ocho Rios, Northern Jamaica. At about 55 m (180 ft) high and 180 m (600 ft) long, the waterfalls are terraced like giant natural stairs though some incorporate man-made improvements. Several small lagoons are interspersed among the vertical sections of the falls. They empty into the Caribbean Sea at the western end of a white-sand beach. The falls were the location where the Battle of Las Chorreras took place on October 30, 1657, when the British defeated a Spanish expeditionary force from Cuba.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).