Patamacca is a resort in Suriname, located in the

Marowijne District Marowijne is a district of Suriname, located on the north-east coast. Marowijne's capital city is Albina, with other towns including Moengo and Wanhatti. The district borders the Atlantic Ocean to the north, French Guiana to the east, the Suri ...

. Its population at the 2012 census was 427. Patamacca is a

tribal The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to conflic ...

area inhabited by Maroons In 1773, attempts were made to conquer the Patamacca territory by the

Society of Suriname The Society of Suriname (Dutch: ''Sociëteit van Suriname'') was a Dutch private company, modelled on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert and set up on 21 May 1683 to profit from the management and defense of the Dutch Republic's colony of Surinam ...

, but did not yield results, and the area was left in the hands of the Maroons. The main economic activity in the Patamacca area was the

palm oil industry Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms. The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 33% of global oils produced from ...

, During the 1960s started a large-scale wood plantation in the resort. There is a large

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies under ...

mine in the resort which is operated by Grassalco. Even though Patamacca did not bear much destruction during the Surinamese Interior War, the civil war did result in refugees, and stopped much of the industry. As of 2019, attempts have been made to restart the palm oil industry with Chinese aid. The village of Ovia Olo is located in the resort.

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Populated places in Marowijne District Ndyuka settlements Resorts of Suriname {{Suriname-geo-stub