Coppename Mouth

The Coppename reaches the Atlantic through the low coastal plain of Suriname, where it shares an estuary with the Saramacca River. Mudbanks, mangroves and shifting channels characterise this coast. Sediment carried northwest from the Amazon helps build and reshape the banks, while tides move through the river mouths. Farther inland the Coppename winds through forest country inhabited by Maroon communities.