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  French Guiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
French Guiana (French: Guyane française, officially Guyane) is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located on the Caribbean coast of South America and part of Caribbean South America.
French Guiana consists of three main geographical regions: a coastal strip where the majority of the people live, then dense, near-inaccessible rainforest, which gradually rises to the modest peaks of the Tumac-Humac mountains along the Brazilian frontier.
The borders between French Guiana and those countries lie along the Maroni River in the rainforest, which are difficult to patrol for French Gendarmerie forces.
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 French Guiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
French Guiana (French: Guyane) is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located on the Caribbean coast of South America.
As an integral part of France, French Guiana is part of the European Union, the largest part in area outside Europe and the only part outside Europe that is not an island (other than the small Spanish towns of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa).
French Guiana is located on the North Atlantic coast of South America.
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 French Guiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Guiana or French Guiana (French Guyane or Guyane française) is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located on the Caribbean coast of South America.
As an integral part of France, French Guiana is part of the European Union, the largest part in area outside Europe and the only part outside Europe that is not an island (other than the small towns of Ceuta and Melilla).
French Guiana is located on the Caribbean coast of South America.
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French Guiana occupies 90,000 km2 on the northeast coast of South America, bordered by Suriname on the west and Brazil on the east and south.
In French Guiana, a third of the population is foreign.
The two areas of malaria transmission in French Guiana are the two large border rivers (Maroni and Oyapock) where transmission is permanent, and the coastal zone, with sporadic and limited transmission.
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 Encyclopedia: French-Guiana
Under the 1946 Constitution of the Fourth Republic, the French colonies of Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana in the Caribbean and Réunion in the Indian Ocean became départements doutre-mer (Overseas departments) or DOMs.
Cayenne is the capital of French Guiana, with a population of 60.
The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic.
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 Central French Guiana Instructions for Expedition Members
French Guiana is an overseas department of France.
In the interior of French Guiana, stream water is often safe for consumption, but even there previous expedition members have come down with girardia and amoebic dysentery as a result of drinking directly from streams.
The forests of central French Guiana are rich in spine-bearing palms of the genera Bactris and Astrocaryum.
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 French Guiana strives to overcome prison history: 7/ 17/ 2005
JOSEPH ISLAND, French Guiana -- Thick tropical vines wrap around rusty jail bars and trees grow inside cells in the 19th-century prison on this far-flung island off South America -- a relic of French Guiana's dark past as a penal colony where thousands of prisoners died of disease.
But their history haunts the French Guianese, who are eager for the world to discover their vast rain forests and eclectic culture of European lifestyles fused with the many traditions brought by Caribbean, Asian and South American immigrants.
The French government spends $2.2 million a year to shed that image, producing brochures and buying television commercials that show off jungles filled with jaguars and monkeys, beaches where huge tortoises waddle out of the surf, and fishermen whisking piranhas out of rivers.
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 History (from French Guiana) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
French merchants from Rouen opened a trading centre in Sinnamary in 1624, followed by others from Rouen or Paris who founded Cayenne in 1643.
French Guiana has an area of 33,399 square miles (86,504 square km) and is bounded by Brazil to the south and east, Suriname to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast.
A member of the brass section, the French horn (or simply horn) is a wind instrument that is noted for its characteristic burnished sound.
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 Central French Guiana: A Unique and Rugged Tourist Experience
The forests of central French Guiana are particularly important to protect because they are at the headwaters of three of French Guiana's major river systems, the Mana, the Approuague, and the Lawa/Maroni (Mori et al., 1997).
The forests of French Guiana harbor numerous spine-bearing palms of the genera Astrocaryum and Bactris and, therefore, special care must be taken not to grab hold of, back into, or fall onto their spines.
A trip to central French Guiana is recommended only for self-motivated tourists with a keen interest in tropical nature, with a special interest in hiking and camping in remote and rugged terrain, or with a desire to descend a wilderness river or stream by boat.
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 French Guiana - Definition of French Guiana - French Guiana in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Besides the French space center at Kourou, fishing and forestry are the most important economic activities.
Cultivation of crops is limited to the coastal area, where the population is largely concentrated; rice and manioc are the major crops.
French Guiana is heavily dependent on imports of food and energy.
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 French Guiana
French is the predominant language; English is not widely spoken.
French Guiana has a relatively moderate to high volume of traffic and police enforce traffic safety.
French customs authorities may enforce strict regulations concerning temporary importation into or export from French Guiana of items such as firearms, medications, animals, etc. It is advisable to contact the Embassy of France in Washington or one of the many French consulates in the United States for specific information regarding customs requirements.
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 Devil's Island by J.J. Maloney
The slaves of French Guiana were emancipated in 1794, only to be reenslaved when the fortunes of the colony dwindled.
The escape from French Guiana resurrects a picture of men battling the elements, men thrown back on their own resources devoid of technological assistance; it is, in short, the stuff of which legends are made.
To sail west along the coast past French Guiana and Dutch Guiana required 10 days—-10 days of constant exposure to the elements, tossed by the seas, drenched in storms, boiled by the sun.
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 French Guiana
Gold-Mining Activities and Mercury Contamination of Native Amerindian Communities in French Guiana: Key Role of Fish in Dietary Uptake.
Mercury exposure in French Guiana: levels and determinants.
FRENCH GUIANA: Visitors discover jungles and culture in former penal colony (AP Worldstream)
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 International Travel News: The road less traveled—biking to Suriname to French Guiana - travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
French Guiana appeared, from the start, to have a more sophisticated infrastructure.
You had to stay in French Guiana for an amount of years equal to your prison sentence.
(This was an attempt by the French to increase the population, an attempt which failed because 90% of the inmates died of malaria, yellow fever or snake bites.)
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 French Guiana map and information page by World Atlas
Discovered by the Spanish in 1496, it was first settled by the French in 1604.
French Guiana was largely ignored until the 18th century when numerous governments tried to control the area, including France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Portugal.
France gave it Overseas Department status in 1946, under which the territory is effectively an integral part of the French nation.
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 Phrasebase - French Guiana Facts And Information
French Guiana All - Show all facts and details about French Guiana.
French Guiana Forum - Phrasebase member Forum on French Guiana.
French Guiana Topics - Phrasebase member topics involving French Guiana.
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 Learn more about French Guiana in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Learn more about French Guiana in the online encyclopedia.
The département of Guiana or French Guiana (French Guyane), is an overseas département (département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located on the Caribbean coast of South America.
As part of France, French Guiana is part of the European Union, the largest part (in area) outside Europe and the only part outside Europe that is not an island.
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 French Guiana Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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 French Flag - Flag Of French Guiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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 French Guiana (including Inini)
The French used it as a penal colony between 1852 and 1939, which included the infamous Devil's Island.
Since then, many indigenous French Guianians have called for increased autonomy, although only around 5% favor independence from France, partly due to the vast subsidies from the French government.
The European Space Center at Kourou has brought a corner of French Guiana into the modern world and attracted a sizable expatriate workforce.
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 French Guiana - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
French Guiana - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about French Guiana contains research on
French Guiana, History, Politics, Geography, Economy, Demographics, Miscellaneous and References.
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 French Guiana -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
First settled by the French in 1604, French Guiana was the site of notorious penal settlements (see (Click link for more info and facts about Devil's Island) Devil's Island) until 1951.
French Guiana is located on the (That part of the Atlantic Ocean north of the equator) North Atlantic coast of (A continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama) South America.
The (Click link for more info and facts about European Space Agency) European Space Agency launches its (Man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon) satellites from (Click link for more info and facts about Centre Spatial Guyanais) Centre Spatial Guyanais, (Click link for more info and facts about Kourou) Kourou.
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 1Up Travel > French Guiana > Travel & Tourism | Tourist Guide to French Guiana
Government and Politics in French Guiana - Profiles the country name, government type, administrative divisions, independence, national holiday, constitution, legal system, suffrage, executive, legislative, and judicial branches, political parties and leaders, and a flag description of French Guiana.
Transportation in French Guiana - Offers statistical details on the railways, highways, waterways, ports & harbors, airports, and other facts on transportation in French Guiana
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 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Papillon at Epinions.com
His sentence: transportation to French Guiana, a tropical paradise but murder on convicts, with the diseases, harsh labor, and mistreatment by the brutal guards.
Despite warnings from the administrator that escape attempts would be dealt with harshly, including the guillotine for incorrigibles, Papillon continually tries to escape and the film shows the dichotomy of solitary confinement, escape attempt, recapture, solitary confinement, escape, and so on.
On their trip over to Guiana on the prison ship the need for protection was adequately demonstrated as the man in the next hammock to Dega's belly was slit for the contents of his plan.
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 About French Guiana - Location, Flag, Map, Weather, Transportation
There are 30 airports in French Guiana, 17 of which are paved.
There are 20,229 Km of highways in French Guiana.
There are 1,612 Km of railways in French Guiana.
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 French Guiana
cabinet: NA elections: representative of the French Government appointed by the president of France on the advice of the French Ministry of Interior; presidents of the General and Regional Councils are appointed by the members of those councils, who vote on party lines
Besides the French space center at Kourou, fishing and forestry are the most important economic activities, with exports of fish and fish products (mostly shrimp) accounting for more than 60% of total revenue in 1992.
Cultivation of crops is limited to the coastal area, where the population is largely concentrated.
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 French Guiana - Country Background and Profile at ed-u.com - The Colossal Education Mega-Site - Click here...
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Background: First settled by the French in 1604, French Guiana was the site of notorious penal settlements until 1951.
elections: French president elected by popular vote for a seven-year term; prefect appointed by the French president on the advice of the French Ministry of Interior; presidents of the General and Regional Councils are appointed by the members of those councils
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 French Guiana - Wikitravel
French is the official language of France, although Creole is widely spoken.
Everyone understands French but few people understand English.
Conditions: you must be French or from another EU-member state or a country belonging to the European Economic Area.
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 Caribbean Net News: St Lucia PM returns from French Guiana
However, the Prime Minister indicated that the French Government had opened the way for closer contact by generously relaxing the requirements for visas for travel by St. Lucians to the French Antilles.
A highlight of the Prime Minister’s visit to French Guiana was a specially guided tour of the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, from where European satellites are launched into space and where St. Lucians are also employed.
Dr Anthony was taken from Kourou on a visit to the tiny land-locked village of Saul, which is based in the centre of French Guiana, and which, along with neighbouring Saint Elie, are mining communities originally founded by St. Lucian miners in the last century.
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