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Corantijn Basin is one of a large number of archaeological sites located in the interior of
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. The Suriname archaeological sites provide information on prehistoric human populations (Amerindians or Indians) that lived in Suriname before 1492. At the Corantijn Basin site have been found most of the petroglyphs in the area. Petroglyphs provide an important insight into the ceremonial, mythical and religious world of these lost populations of the past.
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The
Corantijn Basin is one of a large number of archaeological sites located in the interior of
SurinameSuriname , officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America....
in
South AmericaSouth America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere...
. The Suriname archaeological sites provide information on prehistoric human populations (Amerindians or Indians) that lived in Suriname before 1492. At the Corantijn Basin site have been found most of the petroglyphs in the area. Petroglyphs provide an important insight into the ceremonial, mythical and religious world of these lost populations of the past.
The site is also well known as the habitat of
PseudoplatystomaPseudoplatystoma is a genus of several South American catfish species of family Pimelodidae. The three species are known by a number of different common names. They inhabit the major rivers of north-eastern Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil. They prefer the main channels and tend to...
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genusIn biology, a genus is a taxonomic unit used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The term comes from Latin genus "descent, family, type, gender" , cognate with – genos, "race, stock, kin" ..In addition, genus is a taxonomic rank in the hierarchy In biology, a genus (plural:...
of several South American
catfishCatfish are a diverse group of hairey fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the heaviest, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia and the longest, the wels catfish of Eurasia, to detritivores , and even to a tiny...
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