Map of the new vacant lots between the Matapica and Warapa Creek Canal

Title Leupe: Kaart van de Landen tusschen het gedolven Canaal van Klein Matappica en Warapper Creeq gelegen..

This map shows several lots between the Klein Matapica and Warapa Kreek canals (blue lines on the left and right of the map).

Emphasis is put on the planned lots on the north (above on the map) of the existing lots.

These new lots are indicated through the letters A to G and contain Surinamese acres (1 acre is 0,43 hectare).

The cultivated lots are designated and contain Surinamese acres (1 acre is 0,43 hectare).

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 300 Chains of 66 Rhineland feet = 123 ‘strepen’.