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Kabalebo

River

Kabalebo is a mapped river in the YearMaps hydrographic index. River courses organise settlement, agriculture and frontier-making more durably than any political boundary, and this reach is indexed against the dams, lakes and cities within its catchment.

Feature Class
River
Coordinates
4.41°, -57.22°
7.0
Coordinates: 4.4103° N, 57.2233° WCountry: SurinameOpenStreetMap ↗

About Kabalebo

Kabalebo River is a river in Suriname. It joins with the Courantyne River near Apoera. A plan for a dam in the river serving a hydroelectric power plant is part of the West Suriname Plan of the 1960s. As of 2020, no construction had taken place. Petroglyphs had been discovered on a rock by Ten Kate in 1886.

Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Kabalebo River (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Major River Dossiers

Hand-written studies of the great river systems of history.

Connected Reaches

Nearby watercourses in the same drainage network.

Water Bodies in the Catchment

Settlements Along the Reach

Hydraulic Infrastructure Nearby

Surrounding Terrain

Kabalebo: Quick Answers

Where is Kabalebo?
Kabalebo is located in Suriname, at 4.4103° N, 57.2233° W.
Are there dams on the Kabalebo?
No dam on the Kabalebo is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.