Central Suriname Nature Reserve
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How it came to be
In west-central Suriname, about 1.6 million hectares of primary tropical forest cover some 11% of the country. The reserve protects the upper Coppename River and the headwaters of several other rivers, on the Guiana Shield and within the wider Amazonian region.
In the south, the Wilhelmina Mountains rise to Juliana Top (1,230 m), the highest point in Suriname, and the easternmost table-top mountain of the Guiana Shield also lies in the reserve. The granite dome of the Voltzberg stands 245 metres above the forest. Jaguars, giant armadillos, giant river otters, eight species of primates and 400 species of birds, including the harpy eagle and the Guianan cock-of-the-rock, live here.
Three reserves set up in the 1960s, Raleighvallen, the Eilerts de Haan Mountains and Tafelberg, were merged into one in 1998. Pre-Columbian artefacts and petroglyphs have been found along the rivers and creeks, but no one lives here permanently today. The reserve was inscribed in 2000.
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