Wanapan

Wanapan or Arapahtë pata is a Tiriyó village in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname.

[3] Since the arrival of missionaries to the Surinamese interior in the 1950s, the Tiriyó have increasingly moved to larger population centres close to airfields, such as Alalapadu and Kwamalasamutu.

While this facilitated the work of the missionaries and the Surinamese government, it also meant that soils and hunting areas were over-extracted.

After Asongo Alalaparu was installed as granman of the Tiriyó in 1997, he motivated his people to disperse again.

The nearest school and clinic are located in Apoera, which lies about one day travelling downstream by motorized canoe.