South America
Suriname
Sipaliwini District

Poeketi Airstrip

Poeketi Airstrip is an airstrip serving , .
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Poeketi, Suriname
  • Also known as: “SMPE”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gran Olo and Gran Olo hydrolectric Power Plant.

Rapids
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0.
is a rapids.

Industrial building
The Gran Olo hydroelectric power plant is a mini hydro power plant under construction on the Tapanahony River in with a projected capacity of 300 kilowatts, although initially only one turbine with a capacity of 150 kilowatts will be operated.

Industrial building
The Puketi hydroelectric power plant was a micro hydropower plant constructed near the village of Puketi in Suriname, with a capacity of 50 kW. The plant provided electricity between 1981 and 1987 before it went into disrepair.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Poeketi and Moitaki.

Hamlet
or Puketi is a Ndyuka village in . It lies in . On May 15, 2010, a plane crashed near .

Hamlet
is a Ndyuka village in the of . The village is inhabited by the Misidyan clan or lo. The late gaanman Gazon Matodya was born in .

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.
Drietabbetje is a Ndyuka village in the of . is the residence of the gaanman of the Ndyuka people, since 1950, and the location of the oracle.

Poeketi Airstrip

Latitude
4.126° or 4° 7′ 34″ north
Longitude
-54.6229° or 54° 37′ 22″ west
Open location code
68P749GG+9R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4151432689
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Wiki­data ID
Q1902094
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Discover Poeketi Airstrip from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Tajik—“Poeketi Airstrip” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Airstrip Poeketi”
  • Dutch: “Poeketi Airstrip”
  • Indonesian: “SMPE”
  • Persian: “فردودگاه تکبانده پوئکتی”
  • Tajik: “Фрдудгоҳ ткбондҳ пуеҳкти”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Gold and Drietabbetje Airstrip.

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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 “Poeketi Airstrip”. Photo: S23678, CC BY-SA 3.0.