Morawhanna is a small Atlantic coast village in northern Guyana, on the left side of the Barima River and in close proximity to Venezuela.

[4] Morawhanna was declared a port-of-entry in the mid-1950s, and developed to facilitate the export of manganese from Matthew's Ridge and Port Kaituma to Trinidad and Tobago.

[2] The area suffers regular flooding from the Barima River and lacks drainage to handle it.

[2] The port sees major oil smuggling from Venezuela, which resulted in closure of a GuyOil fuel farm in the 1990s.

[7][8][9] Other villages near Morawhanna include Smith Creek[3] and Imbotero.