Port Kaituma
Port Kaituma is a small village within the Barima-Waini administrative region of Guyana. It became known internationally as a gateway village to the Peoples Temple settlement in nearby Jonestown. It has long been a hub for mining in the area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: Locality controlled de facto by Guyana and claimed by Venezuela from Guyana
- Also known as: “Kaituma”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Port Kaituma Airport.
Port Kaituma Airport
Aerodrome
Port Kaituma Airport is an airport serving the village of Port Kaituma, in the Barima-Waini Region of Guyana. Port Kaituma Airport made headlines on 18 November 1978 when US Congressman Leo Ryan and his team boarded a De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter with registration 8R-GEJ.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jonestown.
Jonestown
Locality
The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name Jonestown, was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American religious cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Jonestown is situated 8 km southwest of Port Kaituma.
Port Kaituma
- Categories: human settlement, disputed territory, and locality
- Location: Barima-Waini, Guyana, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
7.72963° or 7° 43′ 47″ northLongitude
-59.88528° or 59° 53′ 7″ westElevation
13 metres (43 feet)IATA airport code
PKMUnited Nations Location Code
GY PKMOpen location code
68V2P4H7+VVOpenStreetMap ID
node 2635111833OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Swedish—“Port Kaituma” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Порт Кайтума”
- Cebuano: “Port Kaituma”
- Chinese: “卡提瑪港”
- Dutch: “Port Kaituma”
- French: “Port Kaituma”
- French: “Port-Kaituma”
- German: “Port Kaituma”
- Italian: “Port Kaituma”
- Japanese: “ポート・カイトゥマ”
- Korean: “포트 카이투마”
- Korean: “포트카이투마”
- Lithuanian: “Port Kaituma”
- Portuguese: “Port Kaituma”
- Russian: “Порт Кайтума”
- Russian: “Порт-Кайтума”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Port Kaituma”
- Slovenian: “Port Kaituma”
- Spanish: “Port Kaituma”
- Swedish: “Port Kaituma”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Port Kaituma”. Photo: Closedavid, Public domain.