Talhuwen

Talhuwen
Talhuwen Location in French Guiana
Coordinates: 3°22′54″N54°03′01″W / 3.38167°N 54.05028°W / 3.38167; -54.05028
Country	France
Overseas region	French Guiana
Arrondissement	Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
Commune	Maripasoula
Government
• Chief	Kawet Sintaman [1]
Population  (2009)
• Total	110 [2]

Talhuwen, also spelt as Taluwen, Taluhen and Taluen, is a Wayana village situated on the Lawa River in French Guiana. ^[3]

Education

Talhuwen features the only primary school in the immediate vicinity. ^[4] Children from the villages of Kawemhakan and Kumakahpan, which both lie on the other side of the river in Suriname, are transported every day by boat to the school.

The school in Talhuwen was inaugurated in 1991 as an annex to the school in Kulumuli, which itself was established in 1973 by the French teacher Jean-Paul Klingelhofer. ^[5] The school was extended in 2004. ^[6]

Geography

Talhuwen lies opposite the island on which Kulumuli is situated and has on the landside merged with the villages of Epoja and Alawataimë enï. In the 1990s, a village by the name of Esperance was founded between Talhuwen and Epoja by Wayana migrating from Suriname.

Notes

1. "Grand Conseil Coutumier : les membres élus". Collective Territorialé de Guyane (in French). Retrieved 21 February 2021.
2. Duin 2009, p. 138.
3. Boven 2006, pp. 233–234.
4. "École maternelle et élémentaire". French Ministry of Education. Archived from the original on 15 April 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
5. Duin 2009, pp. 134–135, 174.
6. Boven 2006, p. 233.

References

• Boven, Karin M. (2006). Overleven in een Grensgebied: Veranderingsprocessen bij de Wayana in Suriname en Frans-Guyana (PDF). Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
• Duin, Renzo Sebastiaan (2009). Wayana Socio-political Landscapes: Multi-scalar Regionality and Temporality in Guiana (PDF). University of Florida. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-13. Retrieved 2018-02-25.