The Wonderful Demerara River
By Major General (retd) Joseph G Singh MSS, MSc, FRGS
The Demerara River – origin of its name, its profile and its significance
The early Spanish explorers referred to this river as ‘Rio de Mirar’, the wonderful river, but it was the Dutch who christened the river, the Demerara, from the word ‘Demirar’, the wonderful.[1]
The wonderful Demerara River originates from the rugged, rain-fed, forested northern slopes of the Makari Mountains, located slightly right of centre of the narrow waist of Guyana. Continue reading