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Jaw Jaw

Jaw Jaw
Village
Jaw Jaw is located in Suriname
Jaw Jaw
Jaw Jaw
Location in Suriname
Coordinates: 4°25′31″N 55°22′22″W / 4.42528°N 55.37278°W / 4.42528; -55.37278
Country Suriname
DistrictSipaliwini District
ResortBoven Suriname
Population
[1]
 • 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]

References

  1. ^ "Omgeving - Isadou - Suriname". Isadou (in Dutch). Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  2. ^ a b Kempen 2002, p. 113.
  3. ^ a b Plan Bureau 2014, p. 173.
  4. ^ a b Plan Bureau 2014, p. 192.
  5. ^ a b Kempen 2002, p. 114.
  6. ^ Bijl & Eerenstein 1976, p. 6.
  7. ^ Kempen 2002, p. 115.
  8. ^ "Lombe". Parbode (in Dutch). 2 June 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  9. ^ Bijl & Eerenstein 1976, p. 8.
  10. ^ Kempen 2002, p. 116.
  11. ^ "Jaw Jaw Isadou". Suriname Tour (in Dutch). Retrieved 4 July 2020.

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