The town of New Amsterdam developed as a settlement beside Fort Nassau some 55 miles up the Berbice River. Around 1784, as a result of the fluctuating fortunes of Fort Nassau, the Dutch relocated the town to its present site at the confluence of the Berbice and Canje Rivers. The name New […]

Annai is a town in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region of Guyana, located at 3°57′0″N, 59°7′60″W, at an altitude of 95 metres (314 feet). Annai is located at the edge of the Rupununi savannah where the cattle trail to the Atlantic coast begins. It is approximately 15 miles north of Karanambo.
Much of the poulation […]

The Corentyne / Courantyne / Corantijn River is a river in northern South America. The river originates in the Acarai Mountains and flows northward for approximately 700 km (450 miles) between Guyana and Suriname, emptying into the Atlantic Ocean near Corriverton, Guyana and Nieuw Nickerie, Suriname.
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The Essequibo River is the longest river in Guyana, and the largest river between the Orinoco and Amazon. Rising in the Acarai Mountains near the Brazil-Guyana border, the Essequibo flows to the north for 1,000 kilometres through forest and savannah into the Atlantic Ocean. There are countless rapids and waterfalls along the route of […]

The Cuyuni River is a river in northern Guyana and eastern Venezuela. In places it serves as the border between the two countries. The Kamaria Hydroelectric Power site is located on the Cuyuni River in Guyana.
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The Canje River, located in northeastern Guyana, is the main tributary of the Berbice River. It runs roughly parallel to the Atlantic Ocean coast.
The Dutch established an outpost, Concordia Post on the river. In 1763 a slave revolt began on two plantations on the Canje River.
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The Berbice River, located in eastern Guyana, rises in the highlands of the Rupununi region. The Berbice flows northward for 370 miles (595 km) through dense forests to the coastal plain. The river’s tidal limit is between 160 and 320 km from the sea.
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The Demerara River is a river in eastern Guyana that rises in the central rainforests of the country and flows to the north for 346 kilometres without tributaries until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. Georgetown, Guyana’s largest seaport and capital, is situated on the river’s mouth. The Demerara’s estuary is narrow and the flowrate […]