Epoja

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Epoja
Opoya
Overseas region
French Guiana
ArrondissementSaint-Laurent-du-Maroni
CommuneMaripasoula

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

Taluwen and Alawataimë enï and lies clies to the island village of Kulumuli.[2]
In the 1990s, a village by the name of Esperance was founded by Wayana migrating from Suriname next to Epoja and Taluwen.

Notes

  1. ^ Boven 2006, pp. 233–234.
  2. ^ 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.


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