Suriname River

Topography of Suriname

Paramaribo, the ferry across the river. In the background the Wijdenboschbrücke and right the wreck of Goslar ( February 2000)

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The Suriname ( Sranan Tongo Sranan liba, Suriname River ') is a power in the Republic of Suriname ( South America), bounded by the Brokopondostuwmeer ( reservoir) is divided into two halves.

River course

It rises as the Gran Rio on the northern slope of Eilert de Haan Mountains in the extreme southwest of the district Sipaliwini. The river flows in a north - easterly direction and forms the Sintidam with the Adidon and Adindinfällen, forms the Awara and after the first Marrondörfer happened, the Grandam with the Taprawatrafall. When Godo, the Rio Gran - united with the Pikin - Rio ( small river ). Between Godo and the orifice into the reservoir, north of Pokigron, the Suriname flows north through the densely inhabited area of Saramaccaner and forms several small and large waterfalls: Toni, Bofrokule, Dahomey, Ejkununu, Bia - ati, Vedubuka, Jin- Jin, Kuna, Jemongo, Ferulasi, Jaw - Jaw, Apresina and Bakaabotofall. About the lake it receives its previous pouring in from the right rivers, the Gran or Marowijne and the Sarakreek. By the hydroelectric plant at the dam Afobaka the river leaves the lake and flows northwards. In Victoria, the river bends to the west, flows via Berg en Dal turn north and take the Mummy, Klaas and Marchealkreek on. Here he passed the transmigration villages Klaaskreek and Nieuw- Lombe. Beginning of the 60s of the 20th century had about 5,000 Marrons their old villages and places of worship for the reservoir and leave were undertaken in part here. In Paranam the river forms a large sheet and to the north follows the arc of Waterland, where flows from the right Surnaufluss. Behind Domburg takes the Suriname from right to Pauluskreek and left the Para River and the Saramaccakanal on. He happened Paramaribo and on the other side Meerzorg.

Here the river has a width of 900 meters. Right next to the covered market of Paramaribo and in Meerzorg there are docks for a ferry traveling at irregular intervals. In Nieuw -Amsterdam blends from the right Commewijne added and the Suriname flows behind the fishing village of Pamona, at the sand spit Braamspunt into the Atlantic.

Shipping

For the import and export of Suriname is by far the most important river of Suriname. Here About rely not only all ships with bauxite and aluminum, the country - but almost all of the ships come deliver the indispensable for Suriname goods and goods via Braamspunt into the country (just south of the city center) to delete the port of Paramaribo their charge. The ports in the bauxite industry are located approximately 30 km south of Paramaribo, in Smalkalden and Paranam.

Before Paramaribo project further on the captain's command sunken ship by crew members of the German merchant marine, the Goslar, from the water. The ship was flooded shortly after the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in the Netherlands in May 1940, to thwart the seizure by the Dutch colonial power.

Bridges

In May 2000, the Jules Wijdenbosch bridge was inaugurated in Paramaribo and opened to traffic. It is the first bridge over the Suriname in the capital. It is named after the principal and president at that time. The bridge provides access to the easternmost region of Suriname.

At Carolina, approximately 50 km south of Paramaribo, joined a wooden bridge the two banks. This bridge was impassable after a ship collision and was canceled. The new bridge was also severely damaged by ship collisions and must be completely replaced, currently here is a ferry service (July 2011).

• Photo gallery Surinamefluss

Old, broken wooden bridge at Carolina ( February 2000)

The new, heavily damaged bridge at Carolina (March 2008)

Carolina Bridge from the river (September 2011)

Bridge at Afobaka

A few figures

The catchment area of the river is 16.5 thousand km ²; them above the dam, at Pokigron (250 kilometers from the mouth ) 7750 km ². The length of the estuary is 140 kilometers. The mean tidal range in the estuary area is 1.8 meters, the average tidal volume is 120 million cubic meters. The salt boundary extends about 40 km inland to the confluence of the Pauluskreek.

Research

The Suriname was to Brokopondo already in the early days of colonization and also the headwaters was mainly due to the missionary work of the Moravians among the Saramaccanern in the 18th and 19th centuries already known. The scientific exploration of the river began in 1885 by the German K. Martin, who went up the river to Marrondorf Toledo, Filed under: Geological studies on Dutch West India, Leiden 1888 - and was replaced by the so-called Suriname expedition under Eilert de Haan 1908 -1909 continued.

The name

First real sources are Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1595 ) and Lawrence Keymis ( 1596), who navigated the river and called Suriname. In the notation of the river more than 30 variants occur in maps and literature. The name is probably derived from the ancient native Indian tribe, the súrinen and was later transferred as a state competent designation on the land.