Johanna Maria is a town and

resort A resort (North American English) is a self-contained commercial establishment that aims to provide most of a vacationer's needs. This includes food, drink, swimming, accommodation, sports, entertainment and shopping, on the premises. A hotel ...

Suriname Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. It is a developing country with a Human Development Index, high level of human development; i ...

, located in the

Coronie District Coronie is a district of Suriname, situated on the coast. Coronie's capital city is Totness, Suriname, Totness. The district border the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the Surinamese district of Saramacca District, Saramacca to the east, the Suriname ...

. Its population at the 2012 census was 648. The town is named the cotton plantation Johanna Maria founded in 1801 which was owned by Johanna Maria Christina van Onna from 1863 onwards. The coast line subject to flooding and erosion caused by the degradation of the

mangrove A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline water, saline or brackish water. Mangroves grow in an equatorial climate, typically along coastlines and tidal rivers. They have particular adaptations to take in extra oxygen a ...

forests. Plans have been drawn up to construct a 12 kilometre long dike near the coast. Johanna Maria has a school, and clinic, but the area from Clyde to Burnside has no electricity, or telephone. In 1970 the Krioro Masanga was built in Johanna Maria, a multi purpose information and recreation building with a

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...

and a library.

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External links

coronie.nl
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