Tag: Suriname

History of Suriname Before the advent of Europeans, Arawak and Carib tribes lived on the territory of modern Suriname. This part of the continent was first explored in 1499 by the Spanish navigator Alonso de Ojeda. In 1551, Dutch merchants founded a small trading post on the banks of the Suriname River. In con. 16th […]

Suriname is a country on the north coast of South America with (2018) 576,000 residents; The capital is Paramaribo. Country facts Official name: The Republic of Suriname License plate: SME ISO-3166: SR, SUR (740) Internet domain:.sr Currency: 1 Suriname dollar (SRD) = 100 cents Area: 163 820 km² Population (2018): 576,000 Capital: Paramaribo Official language […]

GENERAL Official name of the state Republic of Suriname. Capital Paramaribo. Geography As a country located in South America according to oxfordastronomy, Suriname is bordered to the north by the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by the Marowijne River, which forms the border with French Guiana, to the west by the Corantijn River on the […]

In 1498, for the first time, an Italian observed from the deck of a ship the wild and forested coasts of new lands, which descended with mountain groups into the Atlantic ocean. It was thus an Italian who discovered the coast of Guyana in South America, in an expedition nominally commanded, however, by the Spaniard […]