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Beekhuizen, Paramaribo — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Beekhuizen began as a sugarcane plantation and is a resort of Paramaribo, its streets holding the Monument 100 years abolition of slavery.
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Where to stay in Beekhuizen
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Monuments outnumber hotels here. Beekhuizen covers about nine square kilometres of the Paramaribo District, and what fills it is a run of busts, plaques and memorials, among them Twee Beelden, Wojo Oema and the memorial for Lieve Hugo, rather than a bed supply of its own. Paramaribo answers that.
A room in the city keeps the Monument for Fallen Policemen and the Monument 100 years abolition of slavery inside an easy detour.
Few places to stay in Beekhuizen — most visitors book in Paramaribo nearby.
About Beekhuizen
What are the main landmarks in Beekhuizen?
The list runs to busts. Barnet Lyon and Johan Eilerts de Haan each have one, queen Wilhelmina another, and the Plaque of Johannes Martinus Theunissen adds a further name to the same short circuit through Beekhuizen. Twee Beelden and Wojo Oema stand among them.
The Monument for Fallen Policemen, the memorial for Lieve Hugo, the Monument 100 years abolition of slavery and a marker for five years of the de Miranda Lyceum fill out a set that is unusually dense for nine square kilometres.
What is the history of Beekhuizen?
Beekhuizen was a sugarcane plantation before it was a resort. That plantation ground now carries the streets of a resort in the Paramaribo District, and the Monument 100 years abolition of slavery stands within the same few square kilometres. Busts followed.
Barnet Lyon, Johan Eilerts de Haan and queen Wilhelmina are each set in Beekhuizen, alongside the memorial for Lieve Hugo.
Where is Beekhuizen?
Beekhuizen takes up about nine square kilometres of the Paramaribo District in Suriname, on ground that grew cane before it carried streets.
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What is the best area to stay in Beekhuizen?
Paramaribo: city rooms with the Beekhuizen monument circuit a short way out.
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Updated September 2026