Pomeroon River

Coordinates: 7°37′N 58°45′W / 7.617°N 58.750°W / 7.617; -58.750
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Pomeroon River
Photograph of Pomeroon River
Photograph of Old Map of Pomeroon River (1688)
Old Map of Pomeroon River (1688)
Pomeroon River is located in Guyana
Pomeroon River
Location of mouth
Location
CountryGuyana
Physical characteristics
MouthAtlantic Ocean
 • coordinates
7°37′N 58°45′W / 7.617°N 58.750°W / 7.617; -58.750
 • elevation
Sea level

The Pomeroon River (also Río Pomerón

Orinoco and the Essequibo rivers. The area has long been inhabited by Lokono
people. The Pomeroon River is also one of the deepest rivers in Guyana.

Pomeroon is within the Guyana coastal plain and the area is populated with

mangrove swamp vegetation. Siriki Creek is an estuary of the Pomeroon River.[4] The mouth of the river has been deflected from pouring straight into the Atlantic ocean by a sandy spit that redirects the river to the northwest via the Cozier Canal.[5]

History

According to the London Encyclopaedia of 1829,[3] this river was once regarded as the western boundary between the Demerara and Essequibo Colony[3] and Spanish Guiana.[3]

Use

Coconuts are a major agricultural product in the Pomeroon area, grown for their water and copra.[6]

Tapakuma is a tributary of the Pomeroon River that was developed into a water conservancy which greatly improved cultivation of rice.[7]

Settlement

Shell mounds associated with early human burials dated to the pre-ceramic Alaka phase have been unearthed in the area.[4]

In 1581, the Dutch founded a colony on the banks of the river. The settlement was destroyed by Arawak People in alliance with Spaniards in 1596. In 1658, lured by the Dutch advertisement to colonize the Essequibo, a Jewish colony settled within the Dutch lands on the Pomeroon. Their plantations were destroyed when the British of Barbados invaded in 1665 and most moved on to Suriname.[8]

An Anglican mission was established in 1840 by W. H. Brett.[9] In Brett's travelogue, the eastern bank of the mouth of the Pomeroon was called Cape Nassau, and the river's source was in the Imataka Mountains. The largest tributary was the Arapaiaco River, located 43 miles from the sea. Bouruma was another name for the river. He observed various Amerindian tribes settled along the river, including Warao and Arawak, as well as former plantation slaves.[10]

Settlements on the Pomeroon include the town of Charity, and Kabakaburi (an Amerindian mission settlement founded by Brett, located 16 miles up from Charity[11]).

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9788400084486
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  2. ISBN 9789802221097
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  3. ^ a b c d The London Encyclopaedia: Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature, and Practical Mechanics, Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge. Thomas Tegg. 1829.
  4. ^ a b Plew, Mark G.; Daggers, Louisa B. "Recent excavations at the Siriki shell mound, north-western Guyana". Retrieved 2021-01-21.
  5. ISBN 978-1-4020-8638-0
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  6. OCLC 225109689.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
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  7. JSTOR 40570303
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  8. JSTOR 43059606
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  9. ISBN 978-0-8165-2607-9
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  10. ^ BRETT, REV W. H. (1868). THE INDIAN TRIBES OF GUIANA. pp. 70–71, 79.
  11. ISBN 978-1-315-41728-8
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