Kumakahpan is a Wayana village in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village lies on the banks of the Lawa River, which forms the border with French Guiana.[2]
Name
Kumakahpan means "place of the kumakah". Kumakah and Kankantri are local names for Ceiba pentandra, the kapok tree.[2][3]
Geography
Kumakahpan lies about 7 km (4.3 mi) downstream the Lawa River from the village of Antecume Pata and 5.5 km (3.4 mi) upstream the Lawa River from the villages of Kulumuli and Pïleike.
Notes
- ^ a b VIDS 2022.
- ^ a b Boven 2006, p. 102.
- ^ Teunissen 1976, p. 126.
References
- Boven, Karin M. (2006). Overleven in een Grensgebied: Veranderingsprocessen bij de Wayana in Suriname en Frans-Guyana [Survival in a Border Region: Processes of Change among the Wayana in Suriname and French Guiana] (PDF) (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
- Teunissen, P. A. (1976). "Notes on the vegetation of Suriname: 1. Vegetation changes in a dammed up fresh water swamp in NW Suriname". Acta Amazonica. 6 (2): 117–150. doi:10.1590/1809-43921976062117. Archived from the original on 28 May 2022.
- VIDS (2022). "Dorpen en Dorpsbesturen" [Villages and Village Boards]. Vereniging van Inheemse Dorpshoofden in Suriname (VIDS) [Association of Indigenous Village Chiefs in Suriname] (in Dutch). Distrikt Sipaliwini: 43. Archived from the original on 15 December 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2023.