Paranam

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Paranam
Coordinates: 5 ° 36 '  N , 55 ° 5'  W
Map: Suriname
marker
Paranam
Paranam on the map of Suriname
Basic data
Country Suriname
District Para
Residents 1800  (1977)
Detailed data
Waters Suriname
Time zone UTC −3
Suralco aluminum smelter in Paranam, December 2008
Suralco aluminum smelter in Paranam, December 2008

Paranam is a place in the Republic of Suriname , in the Para district , on the left bank of Suriname . In 1977 it had around 1,800 inhabitants.

founding

Paranam was founded in the late 1930s as a mining village by the Suriname Aluminum Company (Suralco) on former plantation areas . In the 1960s an alumina factory and an aluminum smelter were built here and the mining village became a factory town with the largest industrial complex in Suriname.

The electrical energy is transported from the hydropower plant ( Brokopondo reservoir ) in Afobaka to Paranam via a 70 km long high-voltage line on aluminum masts, where it is supplemented with energy from a turbine center.

The place has factory housing, retail stores, sports facilities (including swimming pools) and a medical service.

Aluminum smelter

Suralco's parent company, Alcoa Corporation, ended its bauxite production in Suriname in 2017 and closed the complex in Paranam.

literature

  • CFA Bruijning and J. Voorhoeve (main editors): Encyclopedie van Suriname . Elsevier , Amsterdam a. Brussel 1977, ISBN 90-10-01842-3 , p. 468.

Individual evidence

  1. StarNieuws, January 4, 2017 Dutch, accessed January 6, 2017.