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Bigi Poika is a resort ( ten Districts are divided into 62 resorts) located in the Para District. Its population at the 2012 census was 525. [2] The population of the eponomymous main village was 267 people in 2022. [1] In 1978–9, a British Social Anthropologist from the London School of Economics, Lesley Forrest, did her fieldwork in Bigi Poika.
Boven Coesewijne Nature Reserve is located at the junction of the coastal plain and the rain-forested interior of Suriname. It contains savannahs , swamp forests, and rainforests. [ 3 ] The reserve can be accessed from the village of Bigi Poika or by boat via the river, a long journey which can take more than a day.
The resorts in the Sipaliwini District are especially large, since the interior of Suriname is sparsely inhabited. The average resort is about 2,600 square kilometres (1,000 sq mi) and has almost 8,000 inhabitants. According to article 161 of the Constitution of Suriname, the highest political body of the resort is the resort council.
Indigenous peoples in Suriname (Dutch: Inheemse volkeren in Suriname), Native Surinamese (Autochtone Surinamers), or Amerindian Surinamese (Indiaanse Surinamers), are Surinamese people who are of indigenous ancestry. They comprise approximately 3.5% of Suriname's population of 612,985.
A week later, Piko was arrested by the police in Guyana and returned to Suriname. [13] Piko and three of his supporters were subsequently jailed in Fort Zeelandia. [14] On 19 February 1990, [15] they were later taken to Apoera where they were killed. [1] The Tucayana Amazonas continued as a political group, and they supported the elections of ...
Maripaston was a village situated in the Bigi Poika resort of the Para District, Suriname.The village was located along the Saramacca River and used to be the main village of the Matawai maroons, a group of descendants of African slaves who escaped and formed their own communities in the interior of Suriname.
Oostelijke Polders is a resort in Suriname located in the Nickerie District. Its population at the 2012 census was 7,153. [1] Villages in the resort include Glasgow, Hamptoncourtpolder, and Paradise. Oostelijke Polders is an agricultural area with a focus on rice production. [2] Oostelijke Polder has a clinic and a school. [3]
The largest of these is the Central Suriname Nature Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The protected areas are managed by the Suriname Forest Service. The Forest Service has appointed STINASU (Stichting Natuurbehoud Suriname), a non-profit foundation, to develop and conduct the educational and tourist aspects in the protected areas. [1]