where was jonestown

Jonestown was located in the northwest of Guyana , a country on the northern coast of South America.

More specifically, it was:

• In a remote jungle area of Guyana’s Northwest District.

• About six miles from the small river port town of Port Kaituma.

• On roughly 3,800–3,852 acres of leased land in the interior rain forest, near the country’s western border region.

Quick Scoop: Context and Significance

• Jonestown was officially called the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, built by followers of Jim Jones who moved there from the United States.

• The settlement became infamous after the mass murder‑suicide of more than 900 people there on November 18, 1978.

• Because it was so remote—reachable only by a long ocean trip and river journey from Georgetown, the capital—it was effectively isolated from the rest of Guyana.

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