Epoja
Epoja
Opoya | ||
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Overseas region French Guiana | | |
Arrondissement | Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni | |
Commune | Maripasoula |
Epoja, also known as Opoya, is a Wayana village situated on the Lawa River in French Guiana.[1]
Geography
Epoja is conjoined with the village of
In the 1990s, a village by the name of Esperance was founded by Wayana migrating from Suriname next to Epoja and Taluwen.Notes
- ^ Boven 2006, pp. 233–234.
- ^ Duin 2009, p. 132.
References
- Boven, Karin M. (2006). Overleven in een Grensgebied: Veranderingsprocessen bij de Wayana in Suriname en Frans-Guyana (PDF). Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
- Duin, Renzo Sebastiaan (2009). Wayana Socio-political Landscapes: Multi-scalar Regionality and Temporality in Guiana (PDF). University of Florida. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-13. Retrieved 2018-02-25.