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The Litani or Itany is a river which forms part of the boundary between Suriname and French Guiana. It is a tributary, or the upper course, of the Maroni. The boundary is disputed, with Suriname also claiming land to the east of the river. [1] The Litani river flows in the Lawa near Antecume Pata, and is fed from the Loë and Ulemari creeks. [2]
The Maroni basin is 68,700 km 2; above the island Langatabbetje (110 km away from the mouth of the river) this area is 63,700 km 2. Between 1952 and 1973, the average discharge near Langatabbetje was about 1,700 m 3 /second. The minimum was 95 m 3 /second, the maximum 6,550 m 3 /second.
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The Guyanese–Surinamese border is the Guyanese river bank (the west bank of the river), Suriname regarded the left bank of the Courantyne as a border, but Guyana disputes this and viewed the center of the river as a frontier, based on the Thalweg Doctrine. This conflict, which has been fueled since the colonial era, was solved in 2007 by a ...
The maritime boundary has long been disputed between Guyana and Suriname as well, and led in 2000 to skirmishes between Guyanese oil explorers and Surinamese coast guards. [7] Guyana claimed a thalweg boundary of the Courantyne River (probably inspired by the 1962 Dutch position), and a 35° line from the true North, from the mouth of the river ...
A very large oil field has been recently discovered in the Guyana-Suriname Basin of the ecoregion. [3] [4] The Guianan is one of two ecoregions (the other being the Amazonia marine ecoregion) in the North Brazil Shelf province, [5] a Large marine ecosystem (LME). The Guianan is thus part of the larger Tropical Atlantic realm. [6] [7] [8]
The Suriname River (Dutch: Surinamerivier) is 480 kilometres (300 mi) long and flows through the country of Suriname. Its sources are located in the Guiana Highlands on the border between the Wilhelmina Mountains and the Eilerts de Haan Mountains (where it is known as the Gran Rio ). [ 1 ]
Later the separation of Africa and South America also resulted in sedimentation in the Guyana-Suriname basin near the coast and offshore. Both the onshore Takutu sedimentary basin and the offshore Guiana Basin have oil potential , and in 2015 significant oil was found in a deep water area off Guyana associated with the NW-SE trend of canyon ...