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The '''Pomeroon River''' (also ''Río Pomerón''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iogvH8BXJFkC&pg=PA110|title=América desde otra frontera: la Guayana holandesa (Surinam) : 1680-1795|last=Solana|first=Ana Crespo|date=2006|publisher=Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press|isbn=9788400084486|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWFsAAAAMAAJ|title=Evolución histórica de la cartografía en Guayana y su significación en los derechos venezolanos sobre el Esequibo|last=Ríos|first=Manuel Alberto Donis|date=1987|publisher=Academia Nacional de la Historia|isbn=9789802221097|language=es}}</ref> ''or Pomaron''<ref name=":1" />) is located in Guyana, South America, situated between the Orinoco and the Essequibo rivers. The area has long been inhabited by Lokono people. The Pomeroon River is also one of the deepest rivers in Guyana.
Pomeroon is within the Guyana coastal plain and the area is populated with mangrove swamp vegetation. Siriki Creek is an estuary of the Pomeroon River.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last1=Plew|first1=Mark G.|last2=Daggers|first2=Louisa B.|date=|title=Recent excavations at the Siriki shell mound, north-western Guyana|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295551699|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-21|website=}}</ref> The mouth of the river has been deflected from pouring straight into the Atlantic ocean by a sandy spit that redirects the river to the northwest via the Cozier Canal.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bird|first=Eric|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mfo5TPb7SDsC&q=pomeroon&pg=PA245|title=Encyclopedia of the World's Coastal Landforms|date=2010-02-25|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4020-8638-0|location=|pages=245–246|language=en}}</ref>
== History == According to the London Encyclopaedia of 1829,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OUAKAQAAMAAJ&q=pomaron+river&pg=PA142|title=The London Encyclopaedia: Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature, and Practical Mechanics, Comprising a Popular View of the Present State of Knowledge|date=1829|publisher=Thomas Tegg|language=en}}</ref> this river was once regarded as the western boundary between the Demerara and Essequibo Colony<ref name=":1" /> and Spanish Guiana.<ref name=":1" />
== Use == Coconuts are a major agricultural product in the Pomeroon area, grown for their water and copra.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Coconut genetic resources|date=2005|publisher=International Plant Genetic Resources Institute|others=Rao, V. Ramanatha., Oliver, Jeffrey., Batugal, Pons.|isbn=92-9043-629-8|location=Serdang, Malaysia|oclc=225109689}}</ref>
Tapakuma is a tributary of the Pomeroon River that was developed into a water conservancy which greatly improved cultivation of rice.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Strachan|first=A. J.|date=1980|title=Water Control in Guyana|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40570303|journal=Geography|volume=65|issue=4|pages=301|jstor=40570303|issn=0016-7487|via=}}</ref>
== Settlement == Shell mounds associated with early human burials dated to the pre-ceramic Alaka phase have been unearthed in the area.<ref name=":0" />
In 1581, the Dutch founded a colony on the banks of the river. The settlement was destroyed by Lokono people in alliance with Spaniards in 1596. In 1658, lured by the Dutch advertisement to colonize the Essequibo, a Jewish colony settled within the Dutch lands on the Pomeroon. Their plantations were destroyed when the British of Barbados invaded in 1665 and most moved on to Suriname.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Oppenheim|first=Samuel|title=An Early Jewish Colony Western Guiana, 1658-1666 : And ITS Relation to the Jews in Surinam, Cayenne and Tobago|date=1907|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43059606|journal=Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society|issue=16|pages=95–186|jstor=43059606|issn=0146-5511}}</ref>
An Anglican mission was established in 1840 by William Henry Brett.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Whitehead|first1=Neil L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_kiLS_v-4RQC&q=pomeroon&pg=PA127|title=Anthropologies of Guayana: Cultural Spaces in Northeastern Amazonia|last2=Alemán|first2=Stephanie W.|date=2009|publisher=University of Arizona Press|isbn=978-0-8165-2607-9|location=|pages=127|language=en}}</ref> In Brett's travelogue, the eastern bank of the mouth of the Pomeroon was called Cape Nassau, and the river's source was in the Imataka Mountains. The largest tributary was the Arapaiaco River, located 43 miles from the sea. Bouruma was another name for the river. He observed various Amerindian tribes settled along the river, including Warao and Lokono, as well as former plantation slaves.<ref>{{Cite book|last=BRETT|first=REV W. H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Ez3e9I_Ix8C&q=pomeroon+&pg=PA79|title=THE INDIAN TRIBES OF GUIANA|date=1868|pages=70–71, 79|language=en}}</ref>
Settlements on the Pomeroon include the town of Charity, and Kabakaburi (an Amerindian mission settlement founded by Brett, located 16 miles up from Charity<ref>{{Cite book|last1=McDougall|first1=Russell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZalJDAAAQBAJ&q=%22pomeroon+River%22&pg=PA257|title=The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration|last2=Davidson|first2=Iain|date=2016-06-03|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-315-41728-8|language=en}}</ref>).
== See also == *List of rivers of Guyana *List of rivers of the Americas by coastline *Agriculture in Guyana *History of the Jews in Guyana
== References == {{Reflist | refs = }}{{Rivers of Guyana}}{{Dutch colonies}} {{Authority control}}
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