Map of the Wanica canal

Title Leupe: Kaart van het Kanaal en Pad van Wanica tot in de Wanica Creeq (voor zoo ver gedolven is).

This map shows the canal of Wanica running from the Path of Wanica near the land of A.J. Koopman and U.Wilkers up untill the Wanica Creek. The Wanica Path was the southerly extension of Wanica Street, then the western boundary of Paramaribo. With its extensions past the plantation of Beekhuizen it was the principal overland access road to the plantation area of Wanica between Para Creek and the Saramacca. Now called Indira Gandhi Road and John F. Kennedy Road, this is the main southern exit road of Paramaribo. By the late eighteenth century, about 25 kilometres south of Paramaribo the Path came out onto Pararac Road. If this was followed for a while in a westerly direction, via a patrol path through the forest, one would eventually arrive at the military post Voorzorg on the Saramacca. The canal was dug through swamps, forests and plantations to improve the connection between the Path and the Creek.

North is below.

Scale-bar of 200 chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 393 ‘strepen’.