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'''Talhuwen''', also spelt as '''Taluwen''', '''Taluhen''' and '''Taluen''', is a [[Wayana]] village situated on the [[Lawa River (South America)|Lawa River]] in [[French Guiana]].{{sfn|Boven|2006|pp=233-234}}
== Education ==
Talhuwen features the only primary school in the immediate vicinity.<ref name="frenchministryeducation">{{cite web |title=École maternelle et élémentaire |url=http://www.education.gouv.fr/annuaire/973-guyane/maripasoula/etab/ecole-elementaire-publique-twenke-taluwen.html |website=French Ministry of Education |access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref> Children from the villages of [[Kawemhakan]] and [[Kumakahpan]], which both lie on the other side of the river in [[Suriname]], are transported every day by boat to the school.
The school in Talhuwen was inaugurated in 1991 as an annex to the school in [[Kulumuli]], which itself was established in 1973 by the French teacher Jean-Paul Klingelhofer.{{sfn|Duin|2009|pp=134-135, 174}} The school was extended in 2004.{{sfn|Boven|2006|p=233}}
== Geography ==
Talhuwen lies opposite the island on which [[Kulumuli]] is situated and has on the landside merged with the villages of [[Epoja]] and [[Alawataimë enï]]. In the 1990s, a village by the name of Esperance was founded between Talhuwen and Epoja by Wayana migrating from Suriname.
== Notes ==
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== References ==
*{{cite book |last=Boven |first=Karin M. |year=2006 |title=Overleven in een Grensgebied: Veranderingsprocessen bij de Wayana in Suriname en Frans-Guyana |url=https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/15288/full.pdf |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Rozenberg Publishers }}
*{{cite book |last=Duin |first=Renzo Sebastiaan |year=2009 |title=Wayana Socio-political Landscapes: Multi-scalar Regionality and Temporality in Guiana |url=http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0041100/duin_r.pdf |location= |publisher=University of Florida }}
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