Kumakahpan

Kumakahpan
Kumakahpan Location in Suriname
Coordinates: 3°21′40″N54°3′31″W / 3.36111°N 54.05861°W / 3.36111; -54.05861
Country	Suriname
District	Sipaliwini District
Resort (municipality)	Tapanahony
Government
• Basya	Anita Alijana [1]
Population  (2020) [1]
• Total	27

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 Antécume-Pata and 5.5 km (3.4 mi) upstream the Lawa River from the villages of Kulumuli and Pïleike.

Notes

1. VIDS 2022.
2. Boven 2006, p. 102.
3. 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.