Kabalebo River is a river in
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 ...
. It joins with the
Courantyne River near
Apoera
Apoera, also Apura, is a town in western Suriname. The village has a population of 777 people as of 2020. It is the final destination of the Southern East-West Link. north-west on the other side of the Courantyne River lies the Guyanese village ...
. A plan for a dam in the river serving a
hydroelectric power plant is part of the
West Suriname Plan
The ''West Suriname Plan'' was an economic development plan for the western part of Suriname. As originally conceived, it consists among others of the mining of bauxite in the Bakhuis Mountains, the building of a hydroelectric power plant on the ...
of the 1960s.
As of 2020, no construction has taken place.
Petrogylphs had been discovered on a rock by Ten Kate in 1886.
See also
*
List of rivers of Suriname
Notes
References
*Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
*
Rivers of Suriname
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