Official Name: | Ovia Olo |
Other Name: | Ovillanhollo |
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: | Marowijne District |
Subdivision Type2: | Resort |
Subdivision Name2: | Patamacca |
Population As Of: | 2017 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | c.300 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 5.5131°N -54.4083°W |
Ovia Olo, also Ovillanhollo, is a village of Ndyuka Maroons in the Patamacca resort of the Marowijne District of Suriname.[2]
Electricity for the village is provided by diesel generators.[3] The village does not have a school.[2]
In 2011,[4] the Marowijne Art Park was opened on the East-West Link near Ovia Olo.[5] The Art Park consists of works of art made by international artists, and contributions from the children of Moengo, Ovia Olo and Ricanaumofo.[6]
In 2016, Zhong Heng Tai Investment was given permission to start a 40,000 hectares palm oil plantation[1] even though the village authorities had voted against the plan in 2005. The village was initially not opposed to the plan until the scale was revealed.[7] A smaller plantation had existed near the village between 1975 and 1980, but was destroyed during the Surinamese Interior War.[1]