French Guiana - Comité du Tourisme de la Guyane

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The past
Rivers
Inhabited non-stop for thousands of years, French
Guiana still bears traces of the successive episodes
of its prehistory, its Amerindian archaeology and its
penal history.
On rocks on the Cayenne beaches or waterfalls, visitors
can spot thousands of polishing tools that were used
by Amerindians to form stone axes.
Close to the villages of Kaw, Rémire and Kourou
(Carapa), stone carvings of snakes, frogs or people are
the main representations of symbolic rock paintings.
The most spectacular historical ruins are the old Prison
buildings in Saint-Laurent and on the Îles du Salut,
opposite Kourou.
Don’t forget the famous Iracoubo church, the walls and
ceilings of which were painted by the prisoner Huguet.
All of these sites are easily accessible and guided tours
are available from the different organisations.
amazonia Carved
French Guiana is a land of rivers and these rivers form the country’s
borders; the Maroni in the west borders Suriname, and the Oyapock
in the east forms the border with Brazil. Seen from the sky, everything
is green (like a field of parsley, as some say). In vain, the gaze
searches a landmark. The rivers are the only liquid tracks that cut
a path through this green universe.
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Amerindian polishing tools
rock along
the beach road