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Berbice

American  
[bur-bees] / bɜrˈbis /

noun

  1. a river in E Guyana, flowing NE to the Atlantic Ocean. About 370 miles (595 km) long.


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Beyond the fort, roughly 100 plantations were worked by around 270 European planters and an enslaved population of about 5,000 people, up and down the Berbice River in present-day Guyana, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Nieuwenhuijsen decided to revisit the ship manifest that proved that Beata and her family had returned to the Netherlands from Berbice after her husband died in 1773.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The venture will focus drilling this year on the Corentyne block, the most promising of its three blocks, including Demerara and Berbice.

From Reuters ● May 6, 2022

Helen is related to the Camerons of Glen Nevis: John Cameron, her great, great, great-grandfather, came to Berbice in the early 1800s and set up a plantation with his kinsman Donald Charles Cameron.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2019

If Berbice held no other attraction it would be worth visiting to see this garden.

From Jungle Peace by William Beebe

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