The Rupununi/rʌpəˈnʌni/ is a region in the south-west of Guyana, bordering the Brazilian Amazon. The Rupununi river, also known by the local indigenous peoples as Raponani, flows through the Rupununi region. The name Rupununi originates from the word rapon in the Makushi language, in which it means the black-bellied whistling duck found along the river.[1]
A map of the rivers, including the Rupununi, that flow through Guyana
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The Rupununi /rʌpəˈnʌni/ is a region in the south-west of Guyana, bordering the Brazilian Amazon. The Rupununi river, also known by the local indigenous...
shrublands biome. The Rupununi Savannah is located between the Rupununi River and the border with Brazil and Venezuela. The Rupununi forms the southwestern...
The Rupununi uprising was a secessionist insurrection in Guyana that began on 2 January 1969 led by cattle ranchers who sought to control 22,300 square...
single-drop waterfall in the world by volume. North of the Rupununi River lies the Rupununi savannah, south of which lie the Kanuku Mountains. The four...
The North Rupununi District in located in south-west Guyana consisting of a mixture of forest, savannah and wetlands ecosystems and is considered one of...
South Rupununi Sign Language is an indigenous village sign language used in at least seven Wapishana villages with a high degree of congenital deafness...
West Rupununi West Demerara-Essequibo Coast East Berbice Essequibo Essequibo Islands North west (hinterlands) Mazaruni-Potaro (hinterlands) Rupununi (hinterlands)...
Provisional Government Committee of Rupununi 1969 Now part of Guyana Secessionist government formed during the Rupununi Uprising, an insurrection aimed at...
Dadanawa Ranch is located on the Rupununi River in the Rupununi savannah in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region of Guyana. It is the largest and one...
Falls, Kumaka Falls, and Waraputa Falls. Its many tributaries include the Rupununi, Potaro, Mazaruni, Siparuni, Kuyuwini, Konawaruk and Cuyuni rivers. For...
settled in the Northern Rupununi Savannah. Cuthbert Cary-Elwes, a Jesuit missionary settled among the Macushi of the Rupununi Region (Guyana) in 1909...
expel them from the territory on December 12. On January 2, 1969, the Rupununi uprising by native Pemon and Wapishana led by Valerie Hart, with reported...
in North Rupununi, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region. he was elected Toshao (chief) of the Annai, in Region No. Nine, the North Rupununi in 1989. He...
Kanuku Mountains and the Western Kanuku Mountains are separated by the Rupununi River. In 2011, the mountains were designated National Protected Area....
urban – rural location, and race of the speakers. For example, along the Rupununi River, where the population is largely Amerindian, a distinct form of Guyanese...
Afro-Guyanese in Amerindian lands was a major contributing factor in the Rupununi Uprising. Guyanese journalist Freddie Kissoon expressed the opinion that...
the Amazon River (between Manacapuru and Santarém), Essequibo River and Rupununi River. It is distinguished from other members of the genus Pterophyllum...
Walter Raleigh's Lake Parime by proposing that the seasonal flooding of the Rupununi savannah had been misidentified as a lake. On 24 November 1800, the two...
of armored catfish native to Guyana and Brazil where it occurs in the Rupununi River basin. This species grows to a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in)...
alongside Astyanax siapae, as a part of a redescription of congener Astyanax rupununi, which was formerly considered a synonym of Astyanax bimaculatus. All four...
confluence with the Rio Negro. Horstman discovered Lake Amucu on the North Rupununi but found neither gold nor any evidence of a city. In 1740, Don Manuel...
a tributary of the Rupununi River in Guyana. The Kwitaro is a part of the Rewa River Basin, which is a tributary of the Rupununi River in the larger...
marked the deadliest incident in Guyana's recent military history since the Rupununi uprising in 1969.[better source needed] Under the command of Col. Michael...
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