Nickerie River

The current area map c.1902

The Nickerie behind the market of Nieuw Nickerie -

The Nickerie is a river in the northwest of Suriname ( South America), in the districts Sipaliwini and Nickerie.

River course

The Nickerie rises on the western slope of the Bakhuis Mountains, near the headwaters of the Adampada - water run. Northward flowing he forms the Van Eden and Blanche Marie waterfalls and then makes a large west-east arc, where among other things, the current flowing on the left side Paris Jacob current is added. To the north -east flowing, he takes to the flowing rivers also left Mozes and Falawatra between Lombok and drie Zusters waterfalls and the Baas beard and the Stondasi waterfalls. Behind the Stondasifällen flows the river in the coastal plain, right takes the Arawara on, passing the local settlement Tapoeripa, and on the border of District Coronie and recording the Kofimaka Creek he bends to the west. Behind Wageningen where added from the left of the Maratakka, it flows through an agricultural area (mainly rice ) and finally reaches the Corantijn estuary and hereby the Atlantic.

Special

The river is navigable for ships to Wageningen to about 4 m draft. However, the shoals at the mouth of an obstacle shapes. The Nickerie has a catchment area of approximately 10,000 km ².

Research

The current area was in the 19th century by Voltz (1854 ), Ten Kate (1885), Van Drimmelen (1897 ) and Van Capelle (1900) studied. After 1945, the Centraal Bureau Lucht card ring ( Central Bureau of Lufbildkartierung ) and the Geologic Mijnbouwkundige service were responsible ( Geological- bergbaukundlicher service) for the study.