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The Berbice Bridge is a pontoon bridge over the Berbice River near New Amsterdam in Guyana.The bridge is tolled and was opened on 23 December 2008. [1]With the completion of the Berbice Bridge, and the earlier completion of the Coppename Bridge in Suriname in 1999, the Courantyne River is the only river between the Guyanese capital of Georgetown and the Surinamese capital of Paramaribo still ...
Guyana suffers from infrastructural weakness, [1] and many bridges were poorly built or have failed to receive proper maintenance. The country has one international bridge connecting Guyana to Brazil in the south. Plans have been made to build a bridge over the Courantyne River to connect to Suriname in the east. [2] This is a list of bridges ...
New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) is the regional capital of East Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana and one of the country's largest towns. [2] It is 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the capital, Georgetown and located on the eastern bank of the Berbice River, 6 km (4 mi) upriver from its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean, and immediately south of the Canje River.
The Government of Guyana has administered three official censuses since the 1980 administrative reforms, in 1980, 1991 and 2002. [2] In 2012, the population of East Berbice-Corentyne was recorded at 109,431 people. [3] Official census records for the population of East Berbice-Corentyne are as follows: 2012 : 109,431; 2002 : 123,695; 1991 : 142,541
This was resolved when on 14 September 1678 a charter was signed which established Berbice as a hereditary fief of the Dutch West India Company, in the possession of the Van Peere family. [5] In November 1712, Berbice was briefly occupied by the French under Jacques Cassard, as part of the War of the Spanish Succession. The Van Peere family did ...
Fort Wellington is a village located in the Mahaica-Berbice region of Guyana, serving as its regional capital. It is located on the west coast of Berbice and about 54 miles from Georgetown . Public services include Fort Wellington Hospital, a primary school, a secondary School, [ 2 ] a police station, magistrate's court, National Insurance ...
Pages in category "Road bridges in Guyana" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Berbice Bridge; D.
Obstructed by shallows at its estuary, the Berbice River's mouth is the location of Crab Island, opposite the mouth of the Canje River, the Berbice's main tributary. Quantity of water based on the streamflow of the gauging station at Itabu Falls (04'52'N0'50'13'W) is 40,800 L/min (9,000 imp gal/min; 10,800 US gal/min).