Bakhuis Mountains
The Bakhuis Mountains are a mountain range in central Suriname, spanning 110 kilometres. The mountain range form of the northern part of the Wilhelmina Mountains, and the mountains and its village were named after the Dutch explorer and Royal Dutch East Indies Army officer Louis August Bakhuis.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 295 metres
- Description: mountain range
- Also known as: “Bakhuys Gebergte” and “Bakhuys Mountains”
Bakhuis Mountains
- Category: landform
- Location: Sipaliwini District, Suriname, South America
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Latitude
4.34969° or 4° 20′ 59″ northLongitude
-56.74971° or 56° 44′ 59″ westElevation
295 metres (968 feet)Open location code
68P587X2+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 9293243010OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Bakhuis Mountains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باخويس”
- Cebuano: “Bakhuis Gebergte”
- Chinese: “巴克赫伊斯山”
- Dutch: “Bakhuisgebergte”
- Dutch: “Bakhuysgebergte”
- German: “Bakhuisgebirge”
- Japanese: “バクウイス山脈”
- Ladin: “Ciadëina de Bakhuis”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bakhuisgebergte”
- Spanish: “Montes Bakhuis”
- Venetian: “Monti Bakhuis”
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