Kassikaityu River
River in Guyana / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kassikaityu River is a tributary of the Essequibo River of Guyana.
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Kassikaityu River | |
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Country | Guyana |
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• location | Essequibo River |
• coordinates | 1.8469°N 59.1957°E / 1.8469; 59.1957[1] |
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There are a few different theories on the name of the river, one is that it is named for a local variety of catfish, called kassi. Also, according to Barrington Brown (the first European to record Kaieteur Falls) it is an Amerindian name meaning 'river of death' and more specifically, Robert Hermann Schomburgk said the name is a corruption of the Taruma name casi-kityu meaning 'dead river'.[2]