Jaw Jaw
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Jaw Jaw | |
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Village | |
  Jaw Jaw Location in Suriname | |
| Coordinates: 4°25′31″N 55°22′22″W / 4.42528°N 55.37278°W | |
| Country |  Suriname |
| District | Sipaliwini District |
| Resort | Boven Suriname |
| Population | |
• Total | ca. 400 |
Jaw Jaw, also Yaw Yaw,[2] is a village of Saamaka Maroons[3] in the Boven Suriname resort of the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village is located on the Suriname River.[4]
Jaw Jaw is a transmigration village built for the inhabitants of Lombé[5] which was flooded by the Brokopondo Reservoir after the construction of the Afobaka Dam.[6] The village was built in 1964[5] on a site which had been previously used for coconut production.[7] Some of the original inhabitants of Lombé founded Nieuw Lombé near Berg en Dal.[8] Originally the village was home to 700 people,[2] but in 1976, the population was estimated at several hundred,[9] because many inhabitants had left for the city.[10]
The village has a school, a clinic, and a Roman Catholic church.[3] There is an ecotourism resort on Isadou, an island in the Suriname River across from the village.[11][4]
