Official Name: | Ricanau Mofo |
Other Name: | Ricanaumofo |
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: | Moengo |
Leader Title: | Captain |
Leader Name: | Meizak Banwarie[1] |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 5.6775°N -54.4236°W |
Ricanau Mofo, also Ricanaumofo,[2] is a village of Ndyuka Maroons in the Moengo resort of the Marowijne District of Suriname.[3] The village can be accessed from the East-West Link via Moengo.[4] Ricanau Mofo is located on the Cottica River.[5]
Ricanau Mofo has a school and a health clinic.[3] The village is connected to the electricity grid, and in July 2019, construction started on supplying the village with clean drinking water.[2]
The economy of the village is based on agriculture with an emphasis on producing ginger, arrowleaf elephant ear (tayer), and bananas.[6] Tayer is the basis of the popular Suriname dish pom.[7] In 2019, a Farmers Field School was opened in the village.[8]