River · Grenada
Great River
Great River is counted as the longest river on the Caribbean island of Grenada. It comes down from the forested mountains inside the island and meets the sea at Great River Bay north of Grenville.
Where is the Great River?
The river starts here: forested mountains in the interior of Grenada.
It ends in the Great River Bay north of Grenville.
Countries on the river: Grenada.
The story behind it
On a small island even a short river matters a great deal, and Great River is one of those. Rain falls almost daily on the green mountains, so clear water rushes down steep, rocky beds and past little waterfalls. On the slopes people grow nutmeg, cocoa and bananas, and the river helps to wash and cool the harvest. Freshwater crayfish hide under stones, crabs scuttle along the banks and children swim in the deeper pools where the current slows down. When a hurricane strikes Grenada the friendly stream turns into a brown torrent that can tear out bridges and gardens in a single afternoon. Nobody has published a reliable length for Great River, and islanders sometimes disagree about which of their rivers deserves the title of the longest.
Questions children ask
How long is Great River?
There is no reliable published length for Great River. Like all rivers on Grenada it is short, because the island itself is only a few dozen kilometres across.
Which country does Great River flow through?
Great River lies entirely in Grenada, a small island state in the eastern Caribbean. It drains the wet eastern slopes of the island's mountains.
Where does Great River flow into?
It reaches the Atlantic Ocean at Great River Bay, a little north of the town of Grenville. The coast there is rocky, with reefs just offshore.
Where these numbers come from
Every figure on this page was checked against public reference sources before publication. Where sources genuinely disagree, the text says so.
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