Friendship, Suriname

Coordinates: 5°53′8″N 56°19′53″W / 5.88556°N 56.33139°W / 5.88556; -56.33139

A house in Friendship

Friendship is a town in the Coronie district in Suriname.

It originally was an old plantation, one of the many plantations that lay alongside the East-West Link from Nieuw Nickerie to Paramaribo. From East to West these are:

These plantations were built arount 1880 by Scottish and English settlers.

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