Marijkedorp

Marijkedorp (Lokono: Wan Shi Sha) is a village of indigenous Lokono people[1] in the Albina resort of the Marowijne District of Suriname.

[2] In the 1970s, Albina and Marijkedorp started become a single urban area.

[3] Marijkedorp is depended on Albina for education and healthcare.

[4] The Lokono language has nearly disappeared from Marijkedorp and replaced by Dutch.

[5] Marijkedorp and the village of Alfonsdorp are in an ongoing dispute over the Wanekreek Nature Reserve, as both consider it part of their traditional hunting and fishing grounds.