Onverwacht (Suriname)

Onverwacht on the map of Suriname

Onverwacht was originally a plantation on the beginning tobacco was grown. The Sranan name Bose they got after the owner of the plantation from the first half of the 18th century, Bossé. After the abolition of slavery in 1863 bought eight former slaves the last cultivated as a timber plantation plot. 1968, the main settlement space Onverwacht was the administrative center of the district of Para and the seat of the District Commissioner. The town has about 2,000 inhabitants.

Until the mid- 1980s was Onverwacht breakpoint of a railway line, which was built from 1903 to 1912 for the development of the goldfields on the Upper Suriname. Originally went the route of Paramaribo ( Vaillantsplein ) to cable, named after a 300 m long cable or aerial cable car over the Suriname. On the right bank of the railway line went on to Dam. The two villages are submerged in Brokopondostuwmeer. The last remaining operating section of the railway ran from Onverwacht to Brownsweg. The remains of the old diesel locomotive are in Onverwacht. Experiments in the Netherlands in the 1990s, to activate the path for tourism purposes again were unsuccessful.

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