Bartica

[ bahr-tee-kuh ]

/ bɑrˈti kə /

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noun

a town in N Guyana, on the Essequibo River: river transportation center.

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How to use Bartica in a sentence

The starting out place for the trip was twenty miles from Georgetown at a town upriver called Bartica.
Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds|William La Varre
The little town of Bartica fell away behind us as we slid out into the broad expanse of the old Mazaruni.
Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds|William La Varre
But as Bartica has only twenty inhabitants we bought everything in Georgetown.
Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds|William La Varre
Museum from Bartica, which I reported as E. piliventris, belongs here.
Bees from British Guiana|T. D. A. Cockerell

They were paddling slowly, weary and tired after a long day of portaging, passing with the tide down to Bartica.
Jungle Peace|William Beebe