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Moengo

Moengo is a town on the Cottica River in eastern Suriname, built as a company town for bauxite mining by Suralco, the Surinamese subsidiary of Alcoa, which developed the deposits from the late 1910s. For decades it was a centre of the industry that dominated the Surinamese economy. It suffered heavy damage in the interior war of 1986 to 1992 and large-scale mining there has since ended.

Moengo
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Moengo. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/moengo
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