Werehpai
Sign in to saveWerehpai is an archaeological site in Suriname consisting of several caves containing petroglyphs of pre-Columbian origin. The site is located about from the village of Kwamalasamutu. With 313 identified petroglyphs, Werehpai is by far the largest pre-Columbian petroglyph site known in Suriname, and perhaps the largest in all of the Guianas.
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Name
- Discovery and preliminary research
- Tourism / Iwana Samu
- See also
- References
Werehpai is an archaeological site in Suriname consisting of several caves containing petroglyphs of pre-Columbian origin. The site is located about from the village of Kwamalasamutu. With 313 identified petroglyphs, Werehpai is by far the largest pre-Columbian petroglyph site known in Suriname, and perhaps the largest in all of the Guianas.
== Name == The site was named by the local Tiriyó after an ancestral female hero. The archaeologists who researched the site in 2007 decided to keep the name.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Werehpai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations