Official Name: | Jaw Jaw |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Suriname |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Suriname |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Suriname |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Sipaliwini District |
Subdivision Type2: | Resort |
Subdivision Name2: | Boven Suriname |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | ca. 400 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 4.4253°N -55.3728°W |
Jaw Jaw, also Yaw Yaw, is a village of Saamaka Maroons in the Boven Suriname resort of the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village is located on the Suriname River.
Jaw Jaw is a transmigration village built for the inhabitants of Lombé which was flooded by the Brokopondo Reservoir after the construction of the Afobaka Dam. The village was built in 1964 on a site which had been previously used for coconut production. Some of the original inhabitants of Lombé founded Nieuw Lombé near Berg en Dal.[2] Originally the village was home to 700 people, but in 1976, the population was estimated at several hundred, because many inhabitants had left for the city.
The village has a school, a clinic, and a Roman Catholic church. There is an ecotourism resort on Isadou, an island in the Suriname River across from the village.[3]