Alalapadu

{{Infobox settlement   |official_name = Alalapadu |other_name = |native_name =  |nickname = |settlement_type =  |motto =  |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |image_flag = |flag_size = |image_seal = |seal_size = |image_shield = |shield_size = |image_blank_emblem = |blank_emblem_type = |blank_emblem_size = |image_map = |mapsize = |map_caption = |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |image_dot_map = |pushpin_map = Suriname  |pushpin_label_position =bottom |pushpin_map_caption =Location in Suriname  |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Suriname |subdivision_type1 = District |subdivision_name1 = Sipaliwini District |subdivision_type2 = Resort |subdivision_name2 = Coeroeni |subdivision_type3 = |subdivision_name3 = |subdivision_type4 = |subdivision_name4 =  |government_footnotes = |government_type = |leader_title = Head captain |leader_name = Sede Itashe<ref name="vids"/> |leader_title1 =  |leader_name1 = |leader_title2 = |leader_name2 = |established_title = Settled |established_date = 1961 |established_title2 =  |established_date2 = |established_title3 =  |established_date3 =  |area_magnitude = |unit_pref = |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 =  |area_land_km2 =  |area_water_km2 = |area_total_sq_mi = |area_land_sq_mi = |area_water_sq_mi = |area_water_percent = |area_urban_km2 = |area_urban_sq_mi = |area_metro_km2 = |area_metro_sq_mi = |area_blank1_title = |area_blank1_km2 = |area_blank1_sq_mi =  |population_as_of = 2020 |population_footnotes = |population_note = |population_total = 75<ref name="vids">{{cite web|url=https://vids.sr/about/dorpsbesturen/|title=Dorpen en Dorpsbesturen|website=Vereniging van Inheemse Dorpshoofden in Suriname|access-date=22 June 2022|language=nl|archive-date=11 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511042615/https://vids.sr/about/dorpsbesturen/|url-status=dead}}</ref> |population_density_km2 = |population_density_sq_mi = |population_metro = |population_density_metro_km2 = |population_density_metro_sq_mi = |population_urban = |population_density_urban_km2 = |population_density_urban_sq_mi = |population_blank1_title =Ethnicities |population_blank1 = |population_blank2_title = |population_blank2 = |population_density_blank1_km2 = |population_density_blank1_sq_mi =  |timezone = |utc_offset = |timezone_DST = |utc_offset_DST = |coordinates = {{coord|2|31|14|N|56|19|41|W|region:SR|display=inline}} |elevation_footnotes =  |elevation_m = |elevation_ft =  |postal_code_type =  |postal_code = |area_code = |blank_name = |blank_info = |blank1_name = |blank1_info = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Alalapadu''' is a Tiriyó village in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village was founded by Baptist<ref name="dorpsplan"/> missionaries next to the Alalapadu Airstrip in order to concentrate the Tiriyó of the area in one central village.{{sfn|Wekker|Molendijk|Vernooij|1992|p=42}}

==History== In 1961 the missionary Claude Leavitt accompanied by a group of Wai-Wai Amerindians convinced the chief of the village Panapipa to settle into a modern village. The entire population moved in to what became known as Alalapadu.{{sfn|Mans|Carlin|2015|p=94}} Up to the 1970s, it was biggest Tiriyó village in Suriname.<ref name="dorpsplan">{{cite web|title=DORPSPLAN ALALAPADU 2011–2014|url=http://www.kennisbanksu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DORPSPLAN-Alalapadu-2011.pdf|website=Institute for Graduate Studies and Research via Kennis Bank|access-date=27 May 2020|language=nl}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Between 1976 and 1977, Alalapadu was mostly abandoned in favor of the new settlement of Kwamalasamutu, as the soils surrounding the village became depleted.{{sfn|Wekker|Molendijk|Vernooij|1992|p=43}} Alalapadu was never completely abandoned, however, and in 1999, some Tiriyó again permanently settled in the vicinity of the old village.{{sfn|Heemskerk|Delvoye|2007|p=32}} The new village is sometimes known as Alalapadu II.{{sfn|Mans|2012|p=23}} Granman Ashongo had requested its rebuilding.<ref name="dorpsplan"/>

==Overview== There is no electricity. The economy is based small-scale farming. There are no schools, so children have to go to boarding school in Kwamalasamutu. There is a Baptist church in the village. In 2017, a Brazil nut oil production facility opened in Alalapadu.<ref name="Brazil nut SRHerald">{{cite news |author= |title=Oplevering Brazil nut olie productiefaciliteit te Alalapadu in Zuid-Suriname |url=https://www.srherald.com/suriname/2017/12/04/oplevering-brazil-nut-olie-productiefaciliteit-te-alalapadu-in-zuid-suriname/ |work=Suriname Herald |date=4 December 2017 |access-date=13 April 2018 }}</ref>

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== References == *{{cite book |last1=Heemskerk |first1=Marieke |last2=Delvoye |first2=Katia |year=2007 |title=Trio Baseline Study: A sustainable livelihoods perspective on the Trio Indigenous Peoples of South Suriname |url=https://www.act-suriname.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Trio-Baseline-Study_2007.pdf |location=Paramaribo |publisher=Stichting Amazon Conservation Team-Suriname }} *{{cite book |last=Mans |first=Jimmy |year=2012 |title=Amotopoan trails: a recent archaeology of Trio movements |location=Leiden |publisher=Sidestone Press |hdl=1887/19857 |isbn=978-90-8890-098-3 }} *{{cite book |last1=Mans |first1=Jimmy |last2=Carlin |first2=Eithne B. |year=2015|title=Movement through Time in the Southern Guianas: Deconstructing the Amerindian Kaleidoscope |url=https://www.academia.edu/10673618 |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill }} *{{cite book |last1=Wekker |first1=J. |last2=Molendijk |first2=M. |last3=Vernooij |first3=J. |year=1992 |title=De eerste volken van Suriname |location=Paramaribo |publisher=Stichting 12 oktober 1992 }}

Category:Indigenous villages in Suriname Category:Populated places in Sipaliwini District Category:Squatting in Suriname Category:Tiriyó