Kwamalasamutu
Sign in to saveKwamalasamutu, also Kwamalasamoetoe, is a Tiriyó Amerindian village in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname, and home to the granman (paramount chief) of the northern Trios. Kwamalasamutu is the biggest village of the Tiriyó tribe and is located near the disputed border with Guyana.
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- Locality
- Kwamalasamutu
- Region
- Sipaliwini
- Country
- Suriname
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Kwamalasamutu
- Settlement.native_name
- Kwamalasamoetoe
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Suriname
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Suriname
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Suriname
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Sipaliwini
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Resort
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Coeroeni
- Settlement.leader_title
- Granman
- Settlement.leader_name
- Jimmy Toeroemang
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 1,100
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Suriname
- Located in
- Sipaliwini District
- Elevation
- 275
- Body of water
- Sipaliwini River
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- Kwamalasamutu
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Kwamalasamutu, also Kwamalasamoetoe, is a Tiriyó Amerindian village in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname, and home to the granman (paramount chief) of the northern Trios. Kwamalasamutu is the biggest village of the Tiriyó tribe and is located near the disputed border with Guyana.
==History== The village was built in 1971, because Alalapadu was getting too small. The population is estimated at 1,100 as of 2020. Kwamalasamutu has a school, clinic, and a Baptist church, and since 2010 it has access to the telephone network. The economy is based on small-scale agriculture. The village is also home to small groups of the Wai Wai tribe. The last two speakers of the Mawayana language are in Kwamalasamutu as of 2015.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kwamalasamutu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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