| | commewijne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The channels and picturesque sluices, the remains of the old plantation houses of which some are still in use, are silent witnesses from the once so dynamic district Commewijne. |
 | | Nowadays local fishery, cattle breed, and some little plantations are the head activities of the Javanese and hindostanies descendants of the contract laborers in Commewijne. |
 | | Because of the Braamspunt beach and the Matapica beach (a nesting ground of the giant turtles under which the leatherback), mud banks and lagoons the Surinamese coast is a leading place migratory birds such as the endangered sand birds, use the Surinamese coast to hibernate. |
| www.surinametravel.com /commewijne.htm (214 words) |