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Wakapau
Wakapau
Village
	Wakapau Location in Guyana
	Coordinates: 07°31′N 58°48′W / 7.517°N 58.800°W
Country	Guyana
Region	Pomeroon-Supenaam
Population (2012)
• Total	1,807

The Arawak village of Wakapau (or Wakapoa) is located in the Pomeroon-Supenaam Region of Guyana, on the Wakapau River, a tributary on the west bank of the Pomeroon River, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from its mouth. The name originates from the Lokono word ‘Wakokwãn’, which means pigeon.^[2] The village is composed of twenty inhabited islands. Some of the islands only contain a single family.^[3]

Wakapau was one of the ten original "Indian reservations" of British Guiana.^[4] The village is an example of an Amerindian community that has not only preserved the traditional Arawak culture, but also retained its tribal language.^[5] The community consists of island settlements in the swamps surrounded by forests. The economy is based on logging, subsistence farming and boat services.^[6]

It has three primary and one secondary school.^[7]

References

^ "2012 Population by Village". Statistics Guyana. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
^ GTIMES (2020-09-27). ""We are losing ourselves" in process of trying to fit in modern world". Guyana Times. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
^ "Wakapoa revisited – Part 1". Stabroek News. 2020-10-11. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
^ British Empire Exhibition (1924-1925) (1924). British Guiana British Empire exhibition. Wembley: Sanders Phillips & Co. p. 19. Retrieved 1 December 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "Protecting, Propagating and Reviving Caribbean Indigenous Languages". Unesco via University of the West Indies. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
^ Atkinson, Sharon (2016). "OUR LAND, OUR LIFE" (PDF). Forest Peoples. Amerindian Peoples Association and Forest Peoples Programme. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-9935190-7-9.
^ "Wakapoa revisited – Part 2". Stabroek News. 2020-10-18. Retrieved 2020-12-01.

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[census2012-1] "2012 Population by Village". Statistics Guyana. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

[2] GTIMES (2020-09-27). ""We are losing ourselves" in process of trying to fit in modern world". Guyana Times. Retrieved 2020-12-01.

[3] "Wakapoa revisited – Part 1". Stabroek News. 2020-10-11. Retrieved 2020-12-01.

[4] British Empire Exhibition (1924-1925) (1924). British Guiana British Empire exhibition. Wembley: Sanders Phillips & Co. p. 19. Retrieved 1 December 2021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[5] "Protecting, Propagating and Reviving Caribbean Indigenous Languages". Unesco via University of the West Indies. Retrieved 16 August 2020.

[6] Atkinson, Sharon (2016). "OUR LAND, OUR LIFE" (PDF). Forest Peoples. Amerindian Peoples Association and Forest Peoples Programme. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-9935190-7-9.

[7] "Wakapoa revisited – Part 2". Stabroek News. 2020-10-18. Retrieved 2020-12-01.

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