Paranam
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Coordinates: 5 ° 36 ' N , 55 ° 5' W Paranam on the map of Suriname
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| Country | Suriname | |
| District | Para | |
| Residents | 1800 (1977) | |
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| Waters | Suriname | |
| Time zone | UTC −3 | |
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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
- ↑ StarNieuws, January 4, 2017 Dutch, accessed January 6, 2017.