A report on Kalina people, Guyana and Cuyuni River

Inspector Barnes in the Venezuelan station.
Map indicating the current geographic distribution of the Kali'na population
Drawing of a Kali'na ritual.
Kaieteur Falls is the world's largest single-drop waterfall by volume.
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Kali'na man in Paris in 1892 holding a putu, or wooden club.
Rupununi Savannah
Portrait of the Kali'na exhibited at the Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris in 1892.
Satellite image of Guyana from 2004
Kali'na girls in Suriname in the village of Bigi Poika.
Anomaloglossus beebei (Kaieteur), specific to the Guianas
Kali'na village.
The hoatzin is the national bird of Guyana.
Kali'na boy in a dugout in Paris in 1892.
A tractor in a rice field on Guyana's coastal plain
A proportional representation of Guyana exports, 2019
Thatched roof houses in Guyana
Guyana's population density in 2005 (people per km2)
A graph showing the population of Guyana from 1961 to 2003. The population decline in the 1980s can be clearly seen.
The State House, Guyana's presidential residence
The Supreme Court of Guyana
Guyana's parliament building since 1834
Map of Guyana, showing the Essequibo River and (shaded dark) the river's drainage basin. Venezuela claims territory up to the western bank of the river. The historical claim by the UK included the river basin well into current-day Venezuela.
Cross-border bridge from Guyana to Brazil near Lethem
St George's Cathedral, Georgetown
Providence Stadium as seen from the East Bank Highway

Today, the Kalina live largely in villages on the rivers and coasts of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil.

- Kalina people

It rises in the Guiana Highlands of Venezuela, where it descends northward to El Dorado, and turns eastward to meander through the tropical rain forests of the Cuyuni-Mazaruni Region of Guyana.

- Cuyuni River

There are nine indigenous tribes residing in Guyana: the Wai Wai, Macushi, Patamona, Lokono, Kalina, Wapishana, Pemon, Akawaio and Warao.

- Guyana

Some of the Kali'na people live in the Cuyuni River valley, part of which is in Guyana.

- Cuyuni River

The country where their numbers are the greatest, Kali'na can be found in two distinct zones: in the Llanos of the Orinoco river valley and on the Cuyuni River valley part of which is in Guyana.

- Kalina people

When the British surveyed British Guiana in 1840, they included the entire Cuyuni River basin within the colony.

- Guyana

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