# Boven Coppename

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**Boven Coppename** is a [resort](/source/Resorts_of_Suriname) in [Suriname](/source/Suriname), located in the [Sipaliwini District](/source/Sipaliwini_District). Its population at the 2012 census was 539.[1] The resort is mainly inhabited by [indigenous people](/source/Indigenous_people)[2] of the [Tiriyó](/source/Tiriy%C3%B3_people), and [Maroons](/source/Maroon_people) of the [Kwinti](/source/Kwinti_people) tribe.[3] The main village is [Bitagron](/source/Bitagron). Other villages include [Corneliskondre](/source/Corneliskondre) and [Donderskamp](/source/Donderskamp).

## Nature

The area is covered with a high dry land forest and mist forests at high altitudes.[4] The resort is home to the [Emma Range](/source/Emma_Range), a mountainous range located between the [drainage basin](/source/Drainage_basin) of the [Saramacca](/source/Saramacca_River) and the [Coppename River](/source/Coppename_River).[5] The highest mountain in Suriname, [Julianatop](/source/Julianatop) is located in Boven Coppename.[6]

## References

1. ["Planning Office Suriname - Districts"](https://www.planningofficesuriname.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/STRUCTUUR-ANALYSE-IV.pdf) (in Dutch). *Planning Office Suriname*. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

1. ["Resorts in Suriname Census 2012"](https://web.archive.org/web/20211223031229/https://spangstaging.com/2019/abs/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/census8etn.pdf). Archived from [the original](https://spangstaging.com/2019/abs/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/census8etn.pdf) on 23 December 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2020.

1. Migge, Bettina & Léglise, Isabelle (2013). *Exploring Language in a Multilingual Context: Variation, Interaction and Ideology in Language Documentation*. New York: Cambridge University Press.

1. ["De natuurwetenschappelijke expeditie naar de emmaketen in Suriname, juli-oktober 1959"](https://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/572310) (in Dutch). *Naturalis*. 1959. Retrieved 14 February 2021.

1. ["Militairen banen weg naar expeditie in Suriname"](https://nha.courant.nu/issue/HD/1959-06-11/edition/null/page/3) (in Dutch). *[Haarlem's Dagblad](/source/Haarlem's_Dagblad) via Delpher*. 11 June 1959. Retrieved 14 February 2021.

1. ["Surinaamse vlag wappert op de Juliana Top"](https://www.waterkant.net/suriname/2006/09/16/surinaamse-vlag-wappert-op-de-juliana-top/?cn-reloaded=1) (in Dutch). *Waterkant*. 15 September 2006. Retrieved 29 May 2020.

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