Map of a vacant lot at the Warapa Creek Canal

Title Leupe: Kaart van nog te begeven land aan het gedolven Canaal der Warapper Kreek.

This map shows the remaining land at the Warapa Kreek canal (blue line on the right of the map) which lays to the north (above on the map) of the lot belonging to Sir Limes and the Lodewijksborg plantation.

Only the width of this land is given and the cultivated lands are merely indicated by their name.

The first land assignments in this area were made shortly before the middle of the eighteenth century.

The reclamation of the low-lying parts farther from the river began before c. 1757, starting along Warapa and Marapica Creeks, for which purpose however a system of drainage and supply channels had to be constructed.

Scale of 120 Chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 232 ‘strepen’.

Taken from: OBP Suriname 1769 la B [fol.] 144.