There are several named highways in the country of Suriname .
6-589: The Avobakaweg is a paved 2-lane road connecting Paranam with Afobaka , the location of the Afobaka Dam . The road connects northwards to Paramaribo and the East-West Link. The Avobakaweg has two major branches: One paved branch leads to Brokopondo , and another paved branch leads to Pokigron via Brownsweg . The previous name Afobakaweg was changed in September 2022 to Avobakaweg On 15 May 2020,
12-586: A little hamlet called Klein Curaçao at the location. Paranam was created in 1938 when Alcoa began building a plant to support new mining areas along the Suriname River. Built on a former plantation, the facility was called Paranam after the Para and Suriname Rivers which border the mining concession areas. The Paranam mine began operations in 1941. Alcoa operates worldwide through a joint ventures, and
18-464: Is mainly unpaved. NOTE: Driving is on the left . Suriname and its neighbour Guyana are the only two countries on the (in-land) American continent which drive on the left. Paranam Paranam is a town in the Para District , Suriname . Paranam was created in 1938 for a bauxite factory. In 1965, an aluminium smelter was added. The factories closed down in 2017. There used to be
24-599: The Desiré Delano Bouterse Highway opened, and is the first motorway of Suriname, providing a faster connection between Paramaribo and the Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport . A major road is the 2-lane East-West Link connecting Albina to Nieuw Nickerie . The road was fully paved on 17 December 2009. There is a Southern East-West Link connecting Paramaribo with Apoera via Bitagron , however it
30-512: The first location in the world with an integrated system where the earth was transformed into aluminium. In 2015, Alcoa announced that it was going to close the factories, because the local supplies were exhausted, and the factories could not handle the bauxite from the Bakhuis Mountains . The factories closed down in 2017. Due to the deep water available on the Suriname River, Paranam is a port accessible to oceangoing ships. A pilot
36-590: The operation in Suriname is called The Suriname Aluminum Company (or Suralco). A market and theatre were built in town, however most workers remained in Paramaribo . In 1965, an aluminium smelter was opened in Paranam which operated on the electricity generated by the Afobaka Dam . The smelter converts bauxite to produce approximately 3,150 metric tons of alumina each day at this location. Paranam became
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