Jaw Jaw | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 4°25′31″N 55°22′22″W / 4.42528°N 55.37278°W | |
Country |
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District | Sipaliwini District |
Resort | Boven Suriname |
Population | |
• Total | ca. 400 |
Jaw Jaw, also Yaw Yaw, [2] is a village of Saamaka Maroons [3] in the Boven Suriname resort of the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village is located on the Suriname River. [4]
Jaw Jaw is a transmigration village built for the inhabitants of Lombé [5] which was flooded by the Brokopondo Reservoir after the construction of the Afobaka Dam. [6] The village was built in 1964 [5] on a site which had been previously used for coconut production. [7] Some of the original inhabitants of Lombé founded Nieuw Lombé near Berg en Dal. [8] Originally the village was home to 700 people, [2] but in 1976, the population was estimated at several hundred, [9] because many inhabitants had left for the city. [10]
The village has a school, a clinic, and a Roman Catholic church. [3] There is an ecotourism resort on Isadou, an island in the Suriname River across from the village. [11] [4]
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Jaw Jaw | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 4°25′31″N 55°22′22″W / 4.42528°N 55.37278°W | |
Country |
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District | Sipaliwini District |
Resort | Boven Suriname |
Population | |
• Total | ca. 400 |
Jaw Jaw, also Yaw Yaw, [2] is a village of Saamaka Maroons [3] in the Boven Suriname resort of the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village is located on the Suriname River. [4]
Jaw Jaw is a transmigration village built for the inhabitants of Lombé [5] which was flooded by the Brokopondo Reservoir after the construction of the Afobaka Dam. [6] The village was built in 1964 [5] on a site which had been previously used for coconut production. [7] Some of the original inhabitants of Lombé founded Nieuw Lombé near Berg en Dal. [8] Originally the village was home to 700 people, [2] but in 1976, the population was estimated at several hundred, [9] because many inhabitants had left for the city. [10]
The village has a school, a clinic, and a Roman Catholic church. [3] There is an ecotourism resort on Isadou, an island in the Suriname River across from the village. [11] [4]
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