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This remote village of a few similar houses, just holding out against dense tropical rainforest, lies on the border line between that part of the world that can be reached by car and that part that can not. Once, early 20th century, this must have been a lively and rough town: the first place where money could be spent by the gold and rubber collectors of the age. Passing this village, the last on the long dirt/mud road from Paramaribo, you need a boat to continu several days along the Saramacca river into Matawai tribal areas. Here are Maroon villages, i.e. villages of descendants of 18th Century run-away slaves. Unlike in Brazil or Jamaica, some 20,000 Maroons are still living in Suriname 's rainforest having retained their most original and traditional Afro-American culture.

(See some more of my photos on Suriname <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=suriname&w=53848312@N00">here</a>)
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Source Border line (Suriname)
Author Ahron de Leeuw from Amsterdam, Netherlands
Camera location4° 56′ 38.59″ N, 55° 32′ 05.49″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Ahron de Leeuw at https://flickr.com/photos/53848312@N00/295592887 (archive). It was reviewed on 15 April 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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