French Guiana

LOCATION

French Guiana is 3.9339° N, 53.1258° W or 3.9339 latitude, 53.1258 longitude

1.FRENCH GUIANA IS NORTH OF BRAZIL.
2.IT IS SOUTH OF NORTH AMERICA.
3.IT IS WEST OF AFRICA.
4.IT IS EAST OF SURINAME.

PLACE

Kourou RIVER

• The Kourou River is polluted by mercury.
• The water is brown and muddy like the Amazon river.
• The Kourou River has different fish species.

Salvation's Islands

• The Salvation's Islands is a group of islands of volcano origins.
• It is 11 kilometers of the coast of French Guiana.
• Part off the salvation islands was a prison

Approuague

• The Approuague is a major river in French Guyana
• It runs north from the Tumuk Humak Mountains
• The Approuague bridge is 2 kilometers.

PLACE

Guiana Space Centre

• It is near the equator so less energy is used to maneuver a spacecraft into an equatorial, geostationary orbit.
• They build spaceships that sends food to the International Space Station.
• The ocean is close to the space station so launch failures land in the ocean.

University of French Guiana

• There was a conflict over if the school should donate money to West Indian students
• The university is located in Cayenne, French Guiana
• “The new University of French Guiana was created by decre”

MUSEO DEPARTAMENTAL ALEXANDRE-FRANCONIE

• Museo departamental Alexandre-Franconie was created on September 18th 1901.
• The museum includes some of the natural and historic history of French Guiana
• The stuff there have been there for about 110 years

REGION

French Guiana is divided into four regions Cayenne, Kourou, Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, and Saint-Georges.

MOVEMENT

The Arawak Indians and Carib were early inhabitants of French Guiana. Christopher Columbus spotted French Guiana in 1498. The first French settlers were in the seventeenth century.

HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION

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• Depend: People depend on the fish in their rivers for food
• Adapt: They adapt by fishing and building bridges over rivers
• Modify: They modified a forest and made part of it into a zoo.

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