Fort Cépérou, Cayenne, French Guiana: Fort Cépérou was a fort that protected the city of Cayenne, French Guiana. It is named after Cépérou, a celebrated indigenous chief who ceded the land. The original wooden fort was built on a hill looking over the mouth of the Cayenne River in 1643. Wikipedia
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Primary rainforest, Savane-roche Virginia Trail, Regina, French Guiana.
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If you have any fun facts about the French Guiana, please share and I’ll reblog it!
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Rainforest and river in French Guiana © K J / Alamy Stock Photo
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France, who's capital is in Europe, shares borders with more than 6 other countries but it's longest border is with Brazil due to it owning and governing French Guiana!
by @GeographicGeoff
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A French Guianese couple of Hmong descent
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Tomes's sword-nosed bat (Lonchorhina aurita) from French Guiana.
Sweet Bat Portraits Dispel Stereotypes of These Incredibly Important Mammals
Photographer: Dr. Merlin Tuttle
Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) in Texas.
A male wrinkle-faced bat (Centurio senex) from Belize. No one has any idea why these bats faces are so strange. The species is probably not rare, but it is seldom caught by biologists studying bats.
A black bonneted bat (Eumops auripendulus) from French Guiana.
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Thalurania furcata by Michel GIRAUD-AUDINE
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Dryade à queue fourchue, Fork-tailed Woodnymph
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King Philippe of Belgium and Prince Gabriel of Belgium visit the Guiana Space Centre, where they were supposed to watch the launch of the Ariane 6, in Kourou, French Guiana -April 13th 2023.
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French Guiana
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I have created a new form for North and Central America and the Caribbean, you guys can answer here!
The other form is still open if anyone still wants to say their opinion on South America countries, but I'm already drafting the polls. If anyone knows anything about Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana and wants to talk more about it, it'd be great because almost everyone answered the same things for them.
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