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    The Berbice River /bərˈbiːs/, located in eastern Guyana, is one of the country's major rivers. It rises in the highlands of the Rupununi region and flows...
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    Berbice (/bɜːrˈbiːs/) is a region along the Berbice River in Guyana, which was between 1627 and 1792 a colony of the Dutch West India Company and between...
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  • Berbice Creole Dutch (also known as Berbice Dutch) is a now extinct Dutch creole language, once spoken in Berbice, a region along the Berbice River in...
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    The Berbice Rebellion was a slave rebellion in Guyana that began on 23 February 1763 and lasted to December, with leaders including Coffij. The first...
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    Mahaicony. The Mahaica River runs along the region's western border. The Berbice River is the eastern border. The Mahaicony and Abary Rivers run south to north...
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    The Berbice Bridge is a pontoon bridge over the Berbice River near New Amsterdam in Guyana. The bridge is tolled and was opened on 23 December 2008. With...
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    5198 The Canje River (sometimes referred to as Canje Creek), located in northeastern Guyana, is the main tributary of the Berbice River. It runs roughly...
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    New Amsterdam, Guyana (category Populated places in East Berbice-Corentyne)
    eastern bank of the Berbice River, 6 km (4 mi) upriver from its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean, and immediately south of the Canje River. New Amsterdam's population...
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  • The Society of Berbice (Dutch: Sociëteit van Berbice) was founded on 24 October 1720 by the owners of the colony of Berbice currently in Guyana. These...
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  • Construction of a bridge across the Berbice River at Crab Island and D'Edwards on the East and West banks of Berbice River was completed in 2008. In 2012,...
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    Demerara-Berbice (Region 10) is a region of Guyana, bordering the regions of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara, Demerara-Mahaica and Mahaica-Berbice to the...
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    East Berbice-Corentyne (Region 6) is one of ten regions in Guyana covering the whole of the east of the country. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the...
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  • Nassau (Ghana), established near Mori Fort Nassau (Guyana), on the Berbice River Fort Nassau, Banda Islands, on the island of Bandaneira, in Indonesia...
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    Coffij (category Berbice)
    national hero in Guyana. Cuffy lived in Lilienburg, a plantation on the Berbice River, as a house-slave for a cooper (barrel maker). He was owned by the widow...
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  • Georgetown in Demerara to Rosignol in Berbice, whence it was connected by ferry steamer across the Berbice River to New Amsterdam. The bill proposing the...
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    Fort Nassau (Guyana) (category Berbice)
    Nassau was the capital of the Dutch colony of Berbice, in present-day Guyana. It was situated on the Berbice River approximately 88 kilometres upstream from...
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    Guyaneese log "bulletwood" near the Berbice River, Guyana...
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    colonies was located at Devil Creek, between the Berbice River and the Courantyne River. In 1799, however, Berbice governor Abraham Jacob van Imbijze van Batenburg...
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  • the western Torres Strait Crab Island, Guyana, at the mouth of the Berbice River Crab Island, Malaysia (Pulau Ketam) Crab Cay, Colombia, in the Caribbean...
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  • watersheds of the Demerara and Berbice rivers. The river breaks off into smaller tributaries making it seem "boundless." The river is a well known bird-watching...
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  • GDFS Berbice is a 115 Defiant-class patrol vessel of the Guyana Defence Force. It was launched in 2023 shortly before the 2023 Guyana–Venezuela crisis...
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    The national bird is the Hoatzin, found in the rainforest along the Berbice River. Other common native birds include the horned screamer and the great...
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    longest river in the country and creates the border between Suriname and the East Berbice-Corentyne region of Guyana. Its tributaries include Kutari River, Coeroeni...
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  • River Berbice River Canje River Abary River Mahaicony River Mahaica River Demerara River Haiama River Haianari Creek Haiakwa Creek John River Madawini...
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  • Kwakwani (category Populated places in Upper Demerara-Berbice)
    Kwakwani is a mining and logging village on the Berbice River in the Upper Demerara-Berbice Region of Guyana. Its altitude is 44 metres (147 feet). Kwakwani...
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    similar fashion, settlements along the Berbice River became known as Berbice in 1627 and others along the Demerara River became Demerara (Demerary) in 1745...
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    (2013): Geophagus crocatus, a new species of geophagine cichlid from the Berbice River, Guyana, South America (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Zootaxa, 3731 (2): 279–286...
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  • mining sites are at Linden, south of Georgetown, and Kwakwani on the Berbice River In 2016, 1,479,090 tonnes of bauxite was produced. Bauxite mining began...
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    gained control of the three colonies (Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo) west of the Courantyne River, which became British Guiana and then modern Guyana...
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  • endemic to Guyana where it is found in the basins of the Mazaruni and Berbice Rivers. It is the only member of the genus Skiotocharax. Froese, Rainer; Pauly...
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