Coeroeni is a resort in Suriname, located in the

Sipaliwini District Sipaliwini is the largest district of Suriname, located in the south. Sipaliwini is the only district that does not have a regional capital, as it is directly administered by the national government in Paramaribo. History Sipaliwini was created ...

. Its population at the 2012 census was 1,046. The resort is mainly inhabited by indigenous people of the Tiriyó tribe.

Kwamalasamutu Kwamalasamutu, also Kwamalasamoetoe, is a Tiriyó Amerindian village in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname, and home to the granman (paramount chief) of the northern Trios. Kwamalasamutu is the biggest village of the Tiriyó tribe. History The ...

is the main village of the resort and home to the

granman Granman (Ndyuka language: ''gaanman'') is the title of the paramount chief of a Maroon nation in Suriname and French Guiana. The Ndyuka, Saramaka, Matawai, Aluku, Paramaka and Kwinti nations all have a granman. The paramount chiefs of Amerin ...

(paramount chief) Asongo Alalaparu. The resort was created in 1983 out of Nickerie as a tribal area. The disputed area of south-west Suriname known as Tigri Area belongs to the Coeroeni resort.

Villages

* Alalapadu *

Amatopo Amatopo or Amotopo is a Tiriyó village on the Courentyne River in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village lies next to the Amatopo Airstrip and about upstream from the village of Lucie. The Frederik Willem IV Falls and Arapahu Island ...

Kasuela Kasuela (also Cashew Island, Kasjoe Eiland and Casuela) is an indigenous village of the Tiriyó people in the East Berbice-Corentyne region of Guyana. The village has a population of about 80 people. The inhabitants are of the subgroup or the Fro ...

(disputed) * Kuruni *

* Sakuru (disputed) *

Sipaliwini Savanna The Sipaliwini Savanna is a protected area and nature reserve in Suriname. The reserve is located to the south of the Sipaliwini River in the far south of the country. The reserve measures 100,000 hectares, and has been a protected area since 1972 ...

* Vier Gebroeders The resort is also home to villages which are only inhabited part of the time.

Kamani

Kamani is a border village. It was founded in 2008 by people from Kwamalasamutu. The population as of 2009 was 6 people. The location is .

Nature

Dendrobates azureus (Dendrobates tinctorius) Edit

The Sipaliwini Savanna is a 100,000 hectare

nature reserve A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...

. It has been a protected area since 1972. The majority of the reserve consists of a savannah which in turn is a continuation of the

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

ian

Tumucumaque Mountains National Park The Tumucumaque Mountains National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional Montanhas do Tumucumaque; ) is situated in the Amazon Rainforest in the Brazilian states of Amapá and Pará. It is bordered to the north by French Guiana and Suriname. History Tum ...

. The reserve is in pristine condition with almost no human habitation. This reserve is one of the last frontiers in the tropics, however relatively little is known about the region. The savannah is where the

blue poison dart frog The blue poison dart frog or blue poison arrow frog (''Dendrobates tinctorius "azureus"'') is a poison dart frog found in the forests surrounded by the Sipaliwini Savanna, which is located in southern Suriname (known in Surinamese Dutch and adja ...

was discovered in 1969.

Archaeology

The Werehpai

archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology a ...

, which consists of caves containing

petroglyphs A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...

pre-Columbian In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492. Usually, ...

origin, is located about 10 kilometres from Kwamalasamutu. On the Sipaliwini Savanna relics were discovered of human habitation dating from about 6,000 BC.

Notes

References

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