ABSTRACT
Bordered to the east by the Oyapock River and Brazil, and to the west by the Maroni River and Surinam, French Guiana has an area of 90,500 square kilometers. Situated just below the equator, it is crisscrossed by innumerable currents of water and is almost entirely covered by a tropical forest. Administratively linked to France, it is one of the last areas of South America that is not politically independent.
