Official Name: | Blauwgrond |
Settlement Type: | Resort |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Suriname |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Paramaribo District |
Area Total Km2: | 43 |
Population As Of: | 2012 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 31,483 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | AST |
Utc Offset: | -3 |
Coordinates: | 5.8659°N -55.1268°W |
See main article: Paramaribo. Blauwgrond is a resort in Suriname, located in the Paramaribo District. Its population at the 2012 census was 31,483.[2] Blauwgrond started as a Javanese village to the north of Paramaribo. During the 1960s and 1970s, large scale building projects turned the village into a neighbourhood of Paramaribo,[3] and is mainly known as the Javanese culinary centre with many warungs and restaurants.[4] The resort was called Blauwgrond (English: Blue Ground), because the earth had a bluish colour.
Leonsberg is a former coffee plantation in the northern part of Blauwgrond. It was founded by A. Léon in 1819.[5] At Leonsberg there is a ferry to Nieuw-Amsterdam.