Kassikaityu River

Kassikaityu River
Kassikaityu River
Location
Country	Guyana
Physical characteristics
Mouth
• location	Essequibo River
• coordinates	1°50′49″N 59°11′45″E / 1.8469°N 59.1957°E

The Kassikaityu River is a tributary of the Essequibo River of Guyana.

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]

^ "Kassikaityu, River | General Info | Database for Hydrological Time Series of Inland Waters (DAHITI)".
^ Berrangé, Jevan P.; Johnson, Richard L. (1972). "A Guide to the Upper Essequibo River, Guyana". The Geographical Journal. 138 (1): 41–52. doi:10.2307/1797438. ISSN 0016-7398. JSTOR 1797438.

[1] "Kassikaityu, River | General Info | Database for Hydrological Time Series of Inland Waters (DAHITI)".

[:0-2] Berrangé, Jevan P.; Johnson, Richard L. (1972). "A Guide to the Upper Essequibo River, Guyana". The Geographical Journal. 138 (1): 41–52. doi:10.2307/1797438. ISSN 0016-7398. JSTOR 1797438.

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