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2 unusual facts about French Guiana


Anne-Marie Javouhey

She is known as the Liberator of the Slaves in the New World, and as the mother of the town of Mana, French Guiana.

Semirossia tenera

S. tenera is possibly also present in the southwest Atlantic, specifically off the coasts of Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, and Uruguay, although the latter records are questionable.


Aluku

Sinking, slowly, in the Amazonian forest, they finally settled in the end of the eighteenth century along side the riverbanks tributary of Lawa Maroni, now forming the border between French Guiana and Suriname.

Arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni

The arrondissement of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is an arrondissement of France in the Guyane department in the Guyane region.

Black-headed Parrot

It is found in forest (especially, but not exclusively, humid) and nearby wooded habitats in the Amazon north of the Amazon River and west of the Ucayali River in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Claude Carra Saint-Cyr

With the Bourbon Restoration of 1814, Carra Saint-Cyr was created count and named governor of the French Guiana, a position that he would hold from 1814 to 1819.

Coopérative de Pêche de Guyane

Coopérative de Pêche de Guyane (CODEPEG) is a fishing enterprise in French Guiana.

Demographics of Suriname

Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.

Emerillon language

Emerillon (alternate names Emerilon, Emerion, Mereo, Melejo, Mereyo, Teco) is a Tupi–Guarani language spoken in French Guiana on the rivers Camopi and Tampok.

Footprints under the Window

Realizing that several clues point to the involvement of people from Baredo, Frank and Joe and their friend Chet Morton fly down to Cayenne, French Guiana and then Baredo in the nearby Huellas to investigate.

Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale

The DCSP has competency in 75 departments and within the territorial services of 7 large provincial towns (Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Nice, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Rennes) and overseas (La Réunion, New Caledonia and Antilles- French Guiana).

Lesly Malouda

Malouda played in his teenage years football for the French Guiana club ASC Le Geldar and visit the Collége Henri Agrande in Kourou.

Nilesat 101

Launched by an Ariane 4 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on 28 April 1998 at 22:53:00 UTC by Arianespace, it was manufactured by the European company Matra Marconi Space (Astrium), and started official broadcasting on 31 May 1998 with an Expected Life Time of 15 years.

SCIAMACHY

SCIAMACHY, aboard the ENVISAT satellite, was launched by ESA (European Space Agency) from Kourou, French Guiana, in March 2002.

Telephone numbers in France

The French overseas departments (départements d'outre mer or DOMs), Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Réunion have separate country codes from metropolitan France, although they are treated as part of the French numbering plan, with direct dialing for calls between the DOMs (including collectivités territoriales) and metropolitan France.

Tidiane N'Diaye

He is the author of a number of publications on the history of Black Africa and the African diaspora, as well as numerous economic studies of the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques on the French overseas departments (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique).


see also

A. caudata

Artan­the caudata, a synonym for Piper marginatum, the cake bush, Anesi wiwiri, marigold pepper, Ti Bombé in Creole or Hinojo, a plant species found in moist, shady spots in the Amazon rainforest in Surinam, French Guiana and Brazil

A. vulgare

Astrocaryum vulgare, the tucumã-do-Pará in Brazil, aouara in French Guiana or awarra in Suriname, a palm species native to Amazon

Chlorocardium

They are present in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Guiana Shield (in northeastern Brazil, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states), Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana).

D. minutus

Dendrophryniscus minutus, a toad species found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and possibly Venezuela

Dendropsophus minutus, the lesser treefrog or ranita amarilla común, a frog species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela

Eleutherine bulbosa

E. bulbosa grows in southern Mexico and in the Amazon rainforest, within the borders of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, in addition to the Brazilian states of Amapá and Acre.

Florian Jozefzoon

Born in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana, Jozefzoon made his senior debut for Ajax during the 2010–11 season.

Lawa Antino Airstrip

The pilot got injured with a leg fracture and was transferred for treatment to Maripasoula in French Guiana.

M. bicornis

Myleusnema bicornis, an intestinal parasite species of Myleus ternetzi, a freshwater fish commonly found in the French Guiana river

O. rex

Oecomys rex, the regal oecomys or king arboreal rice rat, a rodent species found in Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and nearby parts of Venezuela and Brazil

P. marginatum

Piper marginatum, the cake bush, Anesi wiwiri, marigold pepper, Ti Bombé in Creole or Hinojo, a plant species found in moist, shady spots in the Amazon rainforest in Surinam, French Guiana and Brazil

P. nitida

Passiflora nitida, the bell apple, a passion fruit species in Costa Rica, French Guiana and Brazil

Saint Joseph Island

Île Saint-Joseph, the southernmost island of the three Îles du Salut in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of French Guiana

TerreStar Networks

On July 1, 2009, from French Guiana in South America, TerreStar launched its geosynchronous satellite, TerreStar-1.