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If borders had brands, that title
would be the marque of
Guyana’s border with Venezuela:
Full – Perfect – Final! They are
words of perfection, of
completion, of eternity. And
they are words that have
stamped their character on the
line that forms Guyana’s western
boundary from Punta Playa to
the Summit of Mount Roraima.
The boundaries of the ancient
‘Wild Coast’ of the Guianas were
the Orinoco and the Amazon
Rivers. The first real occupiers of
the land between the Orinoco
and the Essequibo were the
Dutch. The Dutch presence
there goes back to the 17th
Century when Holland had
placed their stamp on the
Essequibo Region. As early as
1679, a Dutch postholder had
been stationed on the
Pomeroon and occupation
continued thereafter. Today,
throughout the Essequibo
Region, Dutch names ring out
in memory of Dutch Governors,
administrators of many kinds, of
settlors and traders from the
Netherlands.
It was from the Dutch that
Britain acquired those lands,
between the Essequibo and the
Orinoco Rivers. The Treaty of
Munster, 1648, had confirmed
Dutch ownership of the Region,
and, as the Century ended in the
wake of European wars, the
future ownership of the Guianas
was settled.
The end result of the Treaty of
Amiens of 1802, the Convention
of London of 1814 and the
Peace of Paris, the next year, was
that Suriname was Dutch, while
the colonies of
Essequibo-Demerara and
Berbice were confirmed as
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