French Guiana Hotels
French Guiana consists of 2 main geographical regions: a coastal strip where the majority of the people live, and dense, near-inaccessible rainforest which gradually rises to the modest peaks of the Tumac-Humac mountains along the Brazilian frontier.
Hotels in French Guiana are often required for tourists who require short term accommodation in the region. Some may want to see the beaches the culture, the history the entertainment, the sports, history, and tourist attractions of the region. Some may want a large hotel or small hotel. Some may want a hotel that offers good prices. Some may want a hotel with classic design or new design. Some may want to stay at ahotel that has good parking and decent access to the tourist attractions.
Communes of Guyane ; Apatou, Awala-Yalimapo, Camopi, Cayenne, Grand-Santi, Guisanbourg, Iracoubo, Kaw, Kourou, Macouria, Mana, Maripasoula, Matoury, Montsinéry Tonnegrande, Ouanary, Papaïchton, Remire-Montjoly, Roura, Régina, Saint-Georges, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Saint-Élie, Saül, Sinnamary
Though sharing cultural affinities with the French-speaking territories of the Caribbean, French Guiana cannot be considered to be part of that geographic region, with the Caribbean Sea actually being located several hundred kilometres to the west, beyond the arc of the Lesser Antilles.
French Guiana's highest peak is Bellevue de l'Inini (851 m). Other mountains include Mont Machalou (782 m), Pic Coudreau (711 m) and Mont St Marcel (635 m), Mont Favard (200 m) and Montagne du Mahury (156 m). Several small islands are found off the coast, the three Iles du Salut Salvation Islands which includes Devil's Island and the isolated Iles du Connétable bird sanctuary further along the coast towards Brazil.
The Barrage de Petit-Saut hydroelectric dam in the north of French Guiana forms an artificial lake and provides hydroelectricity. There are many rivers in French Guiana.
Cayenne-Rochambeau Airport is an airport located in the commune of Matoury, a southern suburb of Cayenne, French Guiana. It is French Guiana's main international gateway.
French Guiana (French: Guyane française, officially Guyane) is an overseas department (French: département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located on the northern coast of South America. Like the other DOMs, French Guiana is also an overseas region of France, one of the 26 regions of France, and is an integral part of the French Republic.
In 1498 French Guiana was first visited by Europeans when Christopher Columbus sailed to the region on his third voyage and named it the "Land of pariahs".[citation needed] In 1604 France attempted to settle in the area, but was forced to abandon it in the face of hostility from the Portuguese, who viewed it as a violation of the Treaty of Tordesillas. French settlers returned, however, in 1643 and managed to establish a settlement at Cayenne along with some small-scale plantations. This second attempt would again be abandoned following Amerindian attacks. The French returned once more in 1664, and founded a second settlement at Sinnamary (this was attacked by the Dutch in 1665).
In 1667 the British seized the area. Following the Treaty of Breda on 31 July 1667 the area was given back to France. The Dutch briefly occupied it for a period in 1676.
After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made. Instead they found a land filled with hostile natives and tropical diseases. One and a half years later only a few hundred survived. These fled to three small islands which could be seen off shore and named them the Iles de Salut (or "Islands of Salvation"). The largest was called Royal Island, another St. Joseph (after the patron saint of the expedition), and the smallest of the islands, surrounded by strong currents, Île du Diable (the infamous "Devil's Island"). When the survivors of this ill-fated expedition returned home, the terrible stories they told of the colony left a lasting impression in France.
In 1794, after the death of Robespierre, 193 of his followers were sent to French Guiana. In 1797 the republican general Pichegru and many deputies and journalists were also sent to the colony. When they arrived they found that only 54 of the 193 deportées sent out three years earlier were left; 11 had escaped, and the rest had died of tropical fevers and other diseases. Pichegru managed to escape to United States and then returned to France where he was eventually executed for plotting against Napoleon.
Later on, slaves were brought out from Africa and plantations were established along the more disease-free rivers. Exports of sugar, hardwood, Cayenne pepper and other spices brought a certain prosperity to the colony for the first time. Cayenne, the capital, was surrounded by plantations, some of which had several thousand slaves.
In 1809 an Anglo-Portuguese naval squadron took French Guiana (ousting governor Victor Hugues) and gave it to the Portuguese in Brazil. However with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1814 the region was handed back to the French, though a Portuguese presence remained until 1817.
In 1848 France abolished slavery and the ex-slaves fled into the rainforest setting up communities similar to the ones they had been stolen from in Africa. Now called Maroons, they formed a sort of buffer zone between the Europeans who settled along the coast and main rivers, and the unconquered, and often hostile, Native American tribes of the inland regions. Without the availability of slave labour the plantations were soon taken over by the jungle, and the planters ruined.
In 1850 several shiploads of Indians, Malays and Chinese were brought out to work the plantations but, instead, they set up shops in Cayenne and other settlements.
In 1853, gold was discovered in the interior, precipitating border disputes with Brazil and Dutch Guiana (these were later settled in 1891, 1899 and 1915, though a small region of the border with Suriname is still disputed).
The territory of Inini, consisting of most of the interior of French Guiana, was created in 1930. It was abolished in 1946.
After the fall of France to Nazis in World War II the local government declared its allegiance to the Vichy government, despite widespread support for Charles de Gaulle. This government was later removed by the Allies in August 1944.
French Guiana became an overseas département of France on 19 March 1946.
This is a list of cities in French Guiana ; Akouménaye, Alicoto, Apatou, Awala-Yalimapo, Bélizon, Bienvenue, Cacao, Camopi, Cayenne, Citron, Clément, Cormontibo, Coulor, Délices, Gare Tigre, Grand Santi, Guisanbourg, Iracoubo, Javouhey, Kaw or Caux, Kourou, La Forestière, Macouria, Malmanoury, Mana, Maripasoula, Matoury, Montsinéry, Oscar, Ouanary, Ouaqui, Paul Isnard, Pointe Béhague or Coumarouman, Pointe Isère, Régina, Rémire, Rochambeau, Roura, Saül, Sinnamary, St-Élie, St Georges de l'Oyapock, St-Jean, St-Laurent du Maroni, Tonate, Tonnégrande
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