Onverwacht, Suriname
Onverwacht (Dutch for "unexpected".Sranan Tongo:Bose)[1] is the capital town of Para District, Suriname.[2]
Onverwacht | |
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Building at the Onverwacht train station | |
![]() ![]() Onverwacht The location of Paramaribo in Suriname | |
Coordinates: 5°35′30″N 55°10′40″W | |
Country | Suriname |
District | Para District |
Resort | Zuid |
Elevation | 10 m (30 ft) |
Population (2008) | |
• Total | 2,223 |
Time zone | UTC-3 (ART) |
Onverwacht started as a wood plantation with the same name and has existed as early as 1667.[3] On 18 May 1881, the plantation was sold to eight former slaves.[3] In 1910 the Lawa Railway passed through the area and a station was opened.[3] In 1936,[4] a road, currently named Indira Gandhiweg, was built parallel to the railway line to connect Paramaribo with Onverwacht. During World War II, the road was extended to Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport.[5] In 1968, Onverwacht became the capital of the newly formed Para District.[6] In 1987, the last train departed and the station at Onverwacht closed.[7]
Notable people
- Humbert Boerleider (1935-2016), football manager and player.[8]
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gollark: I'm currently running 10000 iterations. Since the implementation I'm using is single-threaded and CPUy, it won't be too fast.
gollark: Random thing: out of interest, I decided to run a bunch of game of life iterations on a 32*32 wrapping grid with half the initial cells alive. In several hundred runs, none got their cell count above the initial cell count.
References
- "Ala poewema foe Trefossa". Digital Library for Dutch Literature. 1979. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- "Distrikt Para". Suriname.nu (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- "Plantage Onverwacht geschiedenis". Pinas Roots (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- "De Gids. Almanak voor Suriname 1937". Digital Library for Dutch Literature (in Dutch). 1936. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- "Distrikt Para info". Suriname.nu (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- "Para". Suriname View (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- "De flop van Lely". Parbode (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- "Onze sporthelden. Deel 3". Digital Library for Dutch Literature. 1999. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
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