French Guiana

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HFA National Reports

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National Platform

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HFA National Focal Point

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Other contacts:

PAHO-WHO Barbados and Eastern Caribbean Countries:

OECC serves the French Departments in the Americas (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Matinique)

Contact Person: Dr. Gina Watson, PWR-ECC, ,Office of the Eastern Caribbean Coordination

Address: Dayralls and Navy Garden Roads, Christ Church, Bridgetown, Barbados / P.O. Box 508, Bridgetown, Barbados

Phone: (+246) 426-3860/426-3865/427-9434 / Fax: 436-9779

E-mail: e-mail@cpc.paho.org

Website: www.cpc.paho.org

French Guiana Civil Defense:

Address: La Région de la Guyane, 66, avenue du Général de Gaulle, 97300 CAYENNE

Phone: 05 94 29 20 20 / FAX : 05 94 31 95 22

E-mail: Courrier@guyane.pref.gouv.fr

Website: http://www.guyane.pref.gouv.fr/

Country profile:

Official Name: Guyane (Guyane française)

Capital: Cayenne

Population: 209,000 (est. 2007)

Area: 83,534 sq km

Population density: 2.5/sq km

Religion: The predominant religion in this region is Roman Catholicism, though the Maroons and some Amerindian peoples still practice their own religions.

Language: French

Ethnics group: Guianese Creoles, Haitians, Europeans, Maroons (also called Bush Negroes) and Amerindians.

Currency: Euro

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 consists of two 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. 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 Ile de Connetable 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.

Institutional Level:

Le Service Interministériel Régional des Affaires Civiles et Economiques de Défense et de Protection Civile (SIRACED.PC) est chargé au premier chef de la prévention des risques naturels, industriels, technologiques et sanitaires (information préventive, élaboration des plans de prévention des risques….) et de la planification des secours (élaboration et mise à jour des plans de secours tels que le plan ORSEC). Il dispose d’un centre opérationnel permettant de gérer les situations de crise. Il est en outre responsable du fonctionnement et du suivi des commissions de sécurité pour les établissements recevant du public : il instruit les dossiers d’examen de secourisme, suit et contrôle les exercices départementaux, et exerce la tutelle du Centre de déminage de la Guyane installé à Kourou.

Source: Wikipedia