Coronie is a district of
Suriname
Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north ...
, situated on the
coast. Coronie's
capital city is
Totness. The district border the
Atlantic Ocean to the north, the Surinamese district of
Saramacca to the east, the Surinamese district of
Sipaliwini to the south and the Surinamese district of
Nickerie to the west. The district is served by the
Totness Airstrip
Totness Airstrip is an airport serving Totness, a town in and capital of the Coronie District in Suriname. This is one of the oldest airports in Suriname.
The marked runway is . Including overruns extends it to .
Charters and destinations
Ch ...
.
The district has a population of 3,391 and an area of 3,902 km
2, and is the district with the smallest population.
History
The first plantations were established from 1808 onwards by
English and
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
colonists.
Coronie became an independent district in 1851.
The oldest plantation in the district is Burnside.
Coronie was isolated and it was not until the 1940s, that a road was built linking Totness with
Paramaribo, which is nowadays part of the
East-West Link.
In September 1965, four
sounding rocket
A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The rockets are used to ...
s of Apache type with a maximum altitude of 205 km were launched. The rockets were launched as part as an investigation into the workings of the
jet stream
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. The project was carried out by
University of Utrecht and
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
NASA provided the rockets.
Totness has been designated as a regional centre in the beginning of the 21st century, and is planned to be upgrade with a medium-sized
hotel and a proper city centre.
The area from Clyde to Burnside has no electricity, or telephone.
Economy
Coronie, as with most of Suriname, relies mostly upon
agriculture for both its income and its food supply. The coastal
environment
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made it a suitable are for
coconut
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and
rice plantations.
In the late 20th century,
rice became a major agricultural crop. The rice fields are suited in the south and along the East-West Link.
The flat and muddy coast with shallow waters prevented the construction of major harbors and large ships had to anchor miles off shores and transfer their passengers and cargo to little boats.
Resorts
Coronie is divided into 3 resorts (''ressorten''):
*
Johanna Maria
Johanna Maria is a town and resort in Suriname, located in the Coronie District. Its population at the 2012 census was 648. The town is named the cotton plantation Johanna Maria founded in 1801 which was owned by Johanna Maria Christina van Onna f ...
*
Totness
*
Welgelegen
Villages
Other villages in Coronie are:
*
Friendship
*
Jenny
Jenny may refer to:
* Jenny (given name), a popular feminine name and list of real and fictional people
* Jenny (surname), a family name
Animals
* Jenny (donkey), a female donkey
* Jenny (gorilla), the oldest gorilla in captivity at the time of ...
*
Mary's Hope
Mary's Hope is a village in the Welgelegen resort of the Coronie District of Suriname. The village can be accessed from the East-West Link.
Overview
Mary's Hope started in 1817 as a slave plantation, producing cotton, owned by Edward Conolly who ...
Nature reserves
Coronie is home to three protected areas. The
Peruvia Nature Reserve
Welgelegen is a resort in Suriname, located in the Coronie District. Its population at the 2012 census was 593. Welgelegen started as a cotton plantation in 1824. The church of Welgelegen was consecrated on 1 November 1883, but wasn't built at the ...
which was established in 1986 and covers 31,000
hectares, the
Bigi Pan
Oostelijke Polders is a resort in Suriname located in the Nickerie District. Its population at the 2012 census was 7,153. Villages in the resort include Glasgow, Hamptoncourtpolder, and Paradise. Oostelijke Polders is an agricultural area with a ...
nature reserve which was established in 1987 and covers 67,000 hectares, and the protected area which was established in 1987 and covers 27,200 hectares.
References
External links
Coronie.eu(in Dutch)
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Districts of Suriname