Official Name: | Met-en-Meerzorg |
Other Name: | Meten-Meer-Zorg |
Settlement Type: | village |
Pushpin Map: | Guyana |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Guyana |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Guyana |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Essequibo Islands-West Demerara |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2012 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 3,910 |
Timezone: | UTC-4 |
Coordinates: | 6.8772°N -58.3242°W |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | Af |
Met-en-Meerzorg (also Meten-Meer-Zorg) is a village located on the West Coast of Demerara in the region of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara in Guyana. The village was named after the sugar plantation Met en Meerzorg.[2]
The community was founded in 1871. The village consists of a housing estate and a squatted village.[3] The informal settlement was composed of fourroom houses constructed with walls made from zinc or wood. In 1997, there was no running water and there had been electricity since 1994.[4] As of 2015, a large scale housing project was started in the village.[5] The village has a health centre, a primary school, and a professional learning college.[3] Met-en-Meerzorg is home to the Guyana Heritage Museum which was founded in 1994.[3]