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	Guiana - LoveToKnow Watches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The colour of the water of the rivers and creeks is in general a dark brown, caused by the infusion of vegetable matter, but where the streams run for a long distance through savannahs they are of a milky colour.
		The principal gold districts are on the Essequibo and its tributaries - the chief being the Cuyuni, Mazaruni, Potaro and Conawarookand on the Barima, Barama and Waini rivers in the north-west district.
		All these rivers take their rise in a somewhat elevated area about the middle of the colony; those streams which rise farther south, in the Tumuc Humac hills, are tributaries of the two frontier rivers, the Maroni on the one hand or the Oyapock on the other.
	7.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GU/GUIANA.htm (10797 words)

	westreg
		, border river with Suriname, is the longest river of French Guiana.
		Maripasoula, administration station, is located on the high Maroni and is border between the country of the Bosh (ex-slaves escaped from Surinam) and the district of the amerindians Wayanas.
		The town has few to offer, but it's the depart point of the descent by pirogue of the Maroni river (4 days and 3 nights) and of trips on the Inini river, for the discovery of the traditional populations.
	www.espace-amazonie.com /westreg.htm (812 words)

	Canoes on the Maroni river (French Guyana)
		On the Maroni river, natural border between French Guyana and the Surinam, canoes tied to the river banks can be counted byt the hundreds.
		The various shapes of the canoes caracterize the geographical and the cultural diversity of the populations of the Maroni.
		The Maroons, originated in Africa and run away from the colonial plantations of Dutch Guyana as early as the XVII century, settled on both bank of the Maroni and developed the canoe's shpae that allows them to pass the rapids.
	www.culture.gouv.fr /documentation/memoire/VISITES/pirogues_uk.htm (219 words)

	Music of French Guiana - Skwik - Discover best jazz, blues, pop, classical, country, rock & roll, trance, metal, indie ...
		The Maroni River runs in their veins, full of their ancestor's history having fled slavery to keep their dignity.
		Having braved the dangers of the forest and the river, generations of Bushee Negroes have successfully attained a certain kind of harmony between their people, the forest and the river.
		The spirits are symbolized by living things: the boa constrictor,"Dagwe", symbolizes a spirit of the earth, the little white caiman "Kaiman", a sprit of the river and creeks, grass snakes or anaconda, "Oumboma", another spirit of the river and creeks.
	www.skwik.com /wiki/index.php?title=Music_of_French_Guiana (1490 words)

	French Guiana
		The official port of entry is Degrad de Cannes (4°51'N, 52°16'W) in the river Mahury.
		When entering the rivers, calculating the state of the tide and the current is a must.
		The Maroni River, which forms the border with Surinam, is navigable for yachts up to the town of Saint Laurent du Maroni.
	www.caribbeancompass.com /frenchguiana.htm (839 words)

	Yumtzilob - artikel Collomb - Myth-identity-territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The evocation of the genealogies reported by the informants permits us to situate the facts in the first half of the 19th century, which seems to confirm the evident link that can be made between the content of the narrative and the memory of the Jesuit Missions.
		Going further west, beyond the Maroni, the Dutch colony had since the 18th century developed plantations in the Suriname and Commewijne rivers, and the Black maroon populations had settled in the forest, becoming de facto competitors of the Amerindians for the same space.
		The history of the Kali'na throughout the colonial period had been the history of losing territory that was undefined and that was made up of not so much an identifiable geographical Place, but rather a network of social and economic relations in the heart of the plateau of the Guianas.
	www.yumtzilob.com /artikel_collomb-myth.htm (3530 words)

	Keyhole
		are found in the Maroni River on the border of Surinam and French Guyana and in small creeks in the coastal zone that have clear water and little current.
		The Maroni River forms the boundary between French Guiana and Suriname (formerly Dutch Guiana), in South America.
		The people that live along the Maroni River are known as Maroons.
	www.wetpetz.com /keyhole.html (905 words)

	APARAI AND WAYANA :: Encyclopedia :: Indigenous Peoples in Brazil :: ISA
		The Aparai come from the south bank of the Amazon River, having migrated to the region of the lower and middle courses of the Curuá, Maicuru, Jari and East Paru rivers, and from there to the area they presently inhabit.
		There were notable conflicts among the Aparai and Wayana, on the middle courses of the Paru and Jarí rivers; among the Wayana and Tiriyó, to the north of these rivers; and among the Wayana and Wajãpi, to the east, on the border regions of the territories of these two groups.
		In the 1950s, the Aparai were still found settled on the East Paru, Jari, Maicuru and upper Curuá rivers of Alenquer; while the Wayana inhabited the middle and upper courses of the East Paru and Jarí rivers, beyond the Litani (French Guiana) and Paloemeu (Surinam) rivers.
	www.socioambiental.org /pib/epienglish/aparai/hist.shtm (710 words)

	The Rivers of Guianas - About the Expedition - WWF - Expeditions in Conservation
		We traveled up the Tapanahoni River in dugout canoes, portaging numerous waterfalls and rapids, exploring the rich biological diversity of the area in search of elusive animals such as harpy eagles, the Guianan cock-of-the-rock, and the giant river otter, increasingly rare in South America.
		The Tapanahoni River is a tributary of the Marowijne (Maroni) River, which forms the border between Suriname and French Guiana.
		This expedition began in the central portion of the Tapanahoni River Basin and proceeded upstream (southwest) to its upper reaches, ascending several significant waterfall formations in the process.
	www.worldwildlife.org /expeditions/rivers/about.htm (366 words)

	CTG/activities and leisure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		You are never far from water in French Guiana, and you will therefore never need to go for miles to find a river, a stream or a creek in order to go for a splash, to relax and to make new discoveries.
		The Sinnamary is a pleasant river to travel, and you might be able to admire scarlet ibises.
		Maroni Club Guyane : 2-hour round trip on the Maroni, half-day trip on the Maroni, trip up the Maroni across the Hermina rapids, day-long discovery tour.
	www.tourisme-guyane.com /en/pimenter/_activites_loisirs.htm (2440 words)

	Indiv Ang
		The journeys for regrouped individuals presented here extend from 8 to 14 days in F.Guiana and are centered on the discovery of a large river and/or a trekking in deep forest.
		Breakfast, visit of Apatou, picnic lunch on the river, arrival in St Laurent in the afternoon, transfer to Kourou, dinner and night at hotel Atlantis***.
		Day 5 : breakfast, way downstream in dugout, passing several rapids, picnic lunch on the river, arrival at the brasilian town of Oiapoque at the end of afternoon, installation at hotel, visit of the town, dinner in a churrascaria and night at hotel.
	www.espace-amazonie.com /IndivAng.htm (4496 words)

	10...9...8... the voice of UKRA, volume 5 issue 2, page 22 of 36, Postcard from Kourou part 1 by Andy Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Saint Laurent is famous mainly for the "camp de transportation" prisons of Papillon fame, and lies on the Maroni River.
		The river is now the border between French Guiana and Surinam, and is famed more for trafficking of illicit substances, with most boats having both flags, and flying the one most favourable when they dock.
		At the mouth of the river, the sandy Atlantic beaches stretch along the Surinami coast to the north, and French Guiana coast to the south, and these are where the turtles come to lay their eggs at high tide.
	www.ukra.org.uk /newsletter/volume5issue2/22.html (751 words)

	3. HYDROGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Figure 3 shows the distribution of temperature, salinity and oxygen in the Maroni river profile.
		The low-salinity surface water affected by the large river discharges has a maximum over the middle and outer parts of the shelf.
		Also the isolines for temperature, salinity and oxygen in the Demerara river profile, Figure 3 reveal a process of upwelling of intermediate water and the existence subsurface of the same types of water as further east.
	www.fao.org /WAIRDOCS/FNS/X6043E/x6043e03.htm (256 words)

	Insight Travel On-line > Places > French Guiana > Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lying 250 km northeast of Cayenne, this quiet colonial town stands by the mouth of the River Maroni.
		About 40 km north of St Laurent, at the mouth of the Maroni and Mana rivers, is the village of Les Hattes (Amerindian name Yalimapo), whose nearby beach is a breeding site for leatherback turtles.
		On the Montsinéry River, 43 km southwest of Cayenne, is the Reserve Animaliere Macourienne, a wildlife reserve where you can see spectacled caimans being fed (Sundays), as well as the chance of spotting jaguars, monkeys, tapirs and other animals and birds.
	www.insightguides.com /ig2/places/french_guiana (500 words)

	Gold-Mining Activities and Mercury Contamination of Native Amerindian Communities in French Guiana: Key Role of Fish in ...
		Gold-mining activities have been responsible for discharges of mercury into the environment as a consequence of using the mercury amalgamation method, where the gold obtained from river sediments, soils, or groundwater rocks is separated from elemental mercury (Hg°) by open circuit heating.
		Concentrations measured in aquatic organisms were different according to their position within the food webs: predatory species, particularly the piscivorous species, have the highest levels of contamination due to the biomagnification of the methylated form of the metal.
		The Wayanas live in the South of French Guiana along the upper Maroni River, mostly in the four villages selected for the study.
	www.ehponline.org /members/2001/109p449-456frery/frery-full.html (6055 words)

	Travel to French Guyana
		From August to October, the beaches are the scene for the moving sight of the birth of these thousands of turtles that one day will come back to lay their own eggs on one of these beaches....
		The river runs through a number of picturesque villages, such as Apatou, Grand Santi and Papaichton, where the ancestral peoples, such as the Noirs Marrons and the Maroni Amerindians still live.
		The generous sea and the territory's many rivers mean that you will not leave French Guiana without having tasted, in a court-bouillon, blaffed or grilled, a wide variety of fish such as red snapper, weakfish, machoiran, grouper or shark, not forgetting seafood, giant prawns or crabs.
	www.reiswijs.co.uk /destinations/southamerica/guyana-fr/guyana-fr.html (1685 words)

	French Guyana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In march 1999 I visited Marleen Govaerts, whom I met while she was working as a midwife for Médecins sans Frontières in Cambodia.
		She now works in de health centre of Maripasoula, at the border of the Maroni river in an isolated district in French Guyana.
		Up the Maroni stream from Maripasoula is an area with indian villages where strangers are not allowed, Although the health centre team undertakes regular visits.
	users.skynet.be /paul.demunter/Guyane-E.html (248 words)

	2. NARRATIVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		6.5 days were spent working off Suriname between the Maroni and the Corentyn rivers.
		A hydrographical section was worked with two stations off - and 5 stations over the shelf towards the coast W of the Maroni river.
		A hydrographical section was worked with three stations off - and 5 stations over the shelf towards the coast east of the Demerara river.
	www.fao.org /WAIRDOCS/FNS/X6043E/x6043e02.htm (217 words)

	French Guiana Travel Tips and Advice \| iExplore.com
		There are ferries across the Maroni River from St Laurent du Moroni to Albina (Surinam), from where there is a road to Paramaribo.
		There are numerous coastal and river transport services.
		Pick-up is from the Laussat Canal and the airport.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/French+Guiana/Do's+and+Don'ts (375 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		These South American species are well known to a wide audience due to their suitability as live exhibits in butterfly houses: they are extremely long-lived, and adults stay on the wing for up to nine months.
		The river surprised him by taking a sharp turn to the left, eventually flowing into the Congo River which Stanley then traced through to the sea.
		The expedition eventually ground to a halt at the village of Yambuya on a tributary of the Congo, the Aruwimi River.
	www.fathom.com /feature/122542 (2709 words)

	Shuttle images of FRENCH GUIANA
		APPROUAGUE RIVER MOUTH: • • • • • • • • •
		MARONI RIVER: • • • • • • • •
		RIVER: • • • • • • • • • • •
	rove.to /french-guiana (252 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on French Guiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, far right, speaks with local authorities during a joint patrol between France and Suriname at the Maroni River near the town of Saint-Laurent-Du-Maroni, French Guiana, Thursday, June 29, 2006.
		The border between the dÃ©partement and Suriname is formed by the Maroni River, which flows through rainforest and is difficult for the French Gendarmerie to patrol.
		The Maroons, descendents of escaped African slaves, live primarily along the Maroni River.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/french_guiana (1390 words)

	Shuttle images of SURINAM
		COAST EAST OF COURANTYNE RIVER: • • • •
		COPPENAME RIVER: • • • • • • • • •
		COURANTYNE RIVER: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
	rove.to /surinam (362 words)

	Find in a Library: The Maroni River Caribs of Surinam.
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	Weltrekordreise, guinness book of worldrecords, toyota, landcruiser, worldrecordtour, emil schmid, liliana schmid
		In the downpour of a tropical shower, the ferry over the Maroni River takes us in 25 minutes from Suriname to French Guiana to the small border town of Saint Laurent-du-Maroni.
		Therefore Philippe has arranged that we may park our LandCruiser during the night in security at the border police station, which is about three quarter of a mile away.
		Long, narrow wooden canoes still are lined up along the river shore, with “captains” fighting for each passenger.
	www.weltrekordreise.ch /p_amerise_gf.html (2604 words)

	Quiscalus Lugubris Fortirostris in Surinam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		.--On November 27, 1952, I was walking along the sea coast near Galibi (Surinam), just west of the mouth of the Maroni River, when suddenly a flock of five birds alighted in some dead shrubbery on the beach.
		The birds seemed exhausted and immediately gave me the impression of migrants having just arrived from the sea.
		On September 24, 1953, I again visited the coast near the mouth of the Maroni River but I could not find a trace of any Quiscalus.--F. H,VESCHM):r, P.O. Box 644, Paramaribo, Surinam.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v071n03/p0329-p0329.html (389 words)

	Reizen naar Frans Guyana - Vakantie in Frans Guyana
		Frans Guayna grenst in het westen aan Suriname en verder aan Brazilië.
		Ville de Saint-Laurent du Maroni - Guyane Franaise [ l'Ouest Guyanais ]
		Ten miles off the coast of Kourou, lies a small archipelago consisting of Ile Royale, Ile Saint Joseph and Ile du Diable, or Devil's Island, where the Penal Colony was set up in 1852.
	www.reiswijs.nl /landeninfo/zuidamerika/guyanafr/guyanafr.html (1404 words)

	Hemiodopsis huraulti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Guyane française: upper part of the Maroni River, at about the Litani falls; X. 1962; lg J. Hurault.
		Guyane française: middle Mana River [...] at Arouani-Sougnou falls (net); 13.
		Guyane française: middle Maroni River, near the Abattis-Cottica falls up-stream (St. 27, coll.
	www.ville-ge.ch /musinfo/mhng/erpi/Hemiodopsis_huraulti.html (52 words)

	Ways of Travel (in alphabetical order, by mode) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Loiza River: near San Juan, Puerto Rico (local)
		Snake River: vicinity of Alpine Junction, WY (local)
		Diamantina River near Pandi Homestead, Queensland, Australia (local)
	www.cheklist.com /wayslist.cfm?groupfield=Water (284 words)

	Occurrence Map List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Kullander, SO & Fang, F, Maroni River drainage: Crique Voltaire, 3.3 km ups
		Kullander, SO & Fang, F, Maroni River drainage: Crique Voltaire, ca 0.5km u
		Kullander, S O et al., Sinnamary River drainage: flooded area along road
	www.fishbase.org /Map/OccurrenceMapList.cfm?id=26525 (459 words)

	CiteULike: PEACEFUL RELATIONS IN A STATELESS REGION: THE POST-WAR MARONI RIVER BORDERS IN THE GUIANAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		CiteULike: PEACEFUL RELATIONS IN A STATELESS REGION: THE POST-WAR MARONI RIVER BORDERS IN THE GUIANAS
		PEACEFUL RELATIONS IN A STATELESS REGION: THE POST-WAR MARONI RIVER BORDERS IN THE GUIANAS
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