Mora is a tiny village on the right bank of the Essequibo River, 35.5 kilometres from Vreed-en-Hoop tucked between Salem and Sparta and home to just a few families. Most of its residents are relatively new, having moved there less than ten years ago, many of its early settlers having migrated as the years went by.
In its early days, Mora had just three families resident and was plagued with deplorable roads. Between the 1950s and the 1980s sugarcane farmers travelled from the Wales, Leonora and Uitvlugt estates and stayed for short periods at a time in Mora working on the farms, planting mainly ground provisions. They made small temporary homes and some eventually stayed. Over time, the village grew but soon families looking for a better life migrated to Georgetown, other parts of Guyana and overseas. Today the village has nine families and is the last village under the Parika/Mora Neighbourhood Democratic Council.
One resident who moved there in the 1970s recalled that there was