Koewarasan ( Javanese : ꦏꦸꦮꦫꦱꦤ꧀ lit. meaning : "well-being") is a

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, located in the

Wanica District Wanica is a district of Suriname located in the north of the country. Wanica's capital city is Lelydorp, the second-largest city in Suriname. Wanica has a population of 118,222 and an area of 443 km2. Following neighboring Paramaribo, Wani ...

. Its population at the 2012 census was 27,713. It is located to the west of

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, and is mainly a suburban area. The municipality was founded in 1939, and was originally intended for the Javanese settlers from

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, however due to

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, only a single group arrived. The majority of the population are East Indian. Prior to 1939, Koewarasan was an agricultural area used for the cultivation of

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Sunny Point

The Surinamese Interior War caused the population of Pokigron to flee. A large group of civilians

squatted Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building (usually residential) that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there wer ...

a terrain on Koewarasan, and have named their village Sunny Point. A school has been setup by the organisation Kansrijk Suriname, and on 24 March 2018, a

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opened. On 3 January 2019, 60 families living in Sunny Point-3 faced eviction.

Notable people

* Shahied Wagid Hosain (1962–2021), singer

References

{{Resorts of Suriname Populated places in Wanica District Resorts of Suriname Squatting in Suriname 1939 establishments in Suriname Populated places established in 1939