Assakata or Asakata is a village in

Barima-Waini Barima-Waini (Region 1) is a region of Guyana. Venezuela claims the territory as part of Guayana Esequiba. The region is located in the northwest of the country and has a population of 26,941. It covers an area of . It borders the Atlantic Ocean ...

region, in the north of

Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

. Assakata is an

Amerindian The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples. Many Indigenous peoples of the Am ...

village inhabited by Warao and

Arawak The Arawak are a group of indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean. Specifically, the term "Arawak" has been applied at various times to the Lokono of South America and the Taíno, who historically lived in the Greater ...

people, located in the swamps and marshes between the Barima and

Pomeroon River The Pomeroon River (also ''Río Pomerón'' ''or Pomaron'') is located in Guyana, South America, situated between the Orinoco and the Essequibo rivers. The area has long been inhabited by Lokono people. The Pomeroon River is also one of the deepe ...

History

Assakata was founded in 1938 as the Assakata mission, and is part of the North West Amerindian District. Since 1996, the area is governed by the Moruca Land Council with

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as the main settlement. The population as of 2013 is approximately 300 people spread over four settlements.

Overview

The economy is based on

subsistence farming Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements, with little or no su ...

. Loggers used to be active in the region, however the village council ended all agreements in 2012. The village has a primary school and a health care centre, however the nearest secondary school is in Santa Rosa. The community began receiving electricity in 2004 when a

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was donated by Mr. Monty Niathally, proprietor of Variety Woods and Greenheart Limited.

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{{Settlements in Guyana, state=expanded Populated places in Barima-Waini Indigenous villages in Guyana