Kutari River

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'''Kutari River''', also called ''Cutari Rivier'', ''Kutari Creek'' or ''Cutari Creek'', is a small river on the southeastern border of Guyana and the southwestern region of Suriname. The location of the river is part of the disputed Tigri Area in the extreme South East region of Suriname.<ref>Rand McNally, ''The New International Atlas'', 1993</ref>

The river has its source in the Acarai Mountains that border Brazil.<ref name="IB">Ewan W. Anderson, International Boundaries: A Geopolitical Atlas, [https://books.google.com/books?id=E7-menNPxREC&pg=PA354 Guyana], page 37, {{ISBN|9781579583750}}, 2003</ref> Together with the Sipaliwini River the Kutari flows out in the Coeroeni River, where the village of Kwamalasamutu is within ten kilometers eastwards as the crow flies.<ref>Dr. Eithne B. Carlin, [https://web.archive.org/web/20200808213558/https://bukubooks.wordpress.com/amerindians/ Indianen in Suriname] {{in lang|nl}}, Talen en Culturen van Indiaans Amerika (TCIA) / Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)</ref> To the north, the Kutari and the Coeroenie successively form the rivers on the eastern border of the Tigri Area.<ref>Kevin H. De Cuba, Department for Sustainable Development (DSD) / The Organization of American States (OAS), Towards Sustainable Energy production and use in the lands inhabited by the Trio and Wayana peoples in the Suriname-Brazil border, [https://www.oas.org/dsd/Working%20Documents/english/Kevin_de_Cuba_Renewable_Energy_Assessment_Kwamalasamutu_Suriname.pdf 4.3.1 Micro hydro power in Kwamalasamutu], page 52, 2003 {{in lang|nl}}</ref> According to Guyana and the United Kingdom, this is the frontier of both countries; according to Suriname the border must be drawn at the New River.<ref name="IB" />

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Category:Border rivers Category:Rivers of Guyana Category:Rivers of Suriname Category:Guyana–Suriname border Category:Rivers of the Tigri Area