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Paramaribo (popularmente llamada Par'bo) es la capital de Surinam. La ciudad está ubicada en el distrito de Paramaribo, a orillas del río Surinam, aproximadamente a 15 kilómetros de la costa del océano Atlántico. La población ronda los 250 000 habitantes, pero el área metropolitana alberga a casi 400 000 habitantes.
The capital and largest city is Paramaribo, which is home to roughly half the population. Suriname was inhabited as early as the fourth millennium BC by various indigenous peoples , including the Arawaks , Caribs , and Wayana .
Paramaribo, largest city, capital, and chief port of Suriname. It lies on the Suriname River 9 miles (15 km) from the Atlantic Ocean. Paramaribo is built on a shingle reef that stands 16 feet (5 meters) above the river at low tide. Access from the ocean is limited by a sandbar that allows a depth.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Historische binnenstad van Paramaribo. Paramaribo is een voormalige Nederlandse koloniale stad uit de 17e en 18e eeuw en ligt aan de noordelijke kust van tropisch Zuid-Amerika. Het originele en zeer karakteristieke stratenplan van het historisch centrum is intact gebleven.
Paramaribo, often called Par'bo, is the lively capital and only city of the sparsely inhabited country of Suriname. Home to about 240,000 people (2012), or over half of the country's population, this laid-back South American gem lies 15 km from the Atlantic Ocean.
The history of Suriname and Paramaribo is nice and colorfull. It tells about the dutch, britisch, spanisch and portugeese influens during the past centuries. Wonderfull and nice houses, churches, buildings, etc.
