The Guianas

The Guianas, sometimes called by the Spanish loan-word Guayanas (Las Guayanas), are a region in north-eastern South America which includes the following three territories:

  • French Guiana, an overseas department of France
  • Guyana, known as British Guiana from 1831 until 1966, after the colonies of Berbice, Essequibo, and Demerara, taken from the Netherlands in 1814, were merged into a single colony
  • Suriname, until 1814 a part of Dutch Guiana, together with Berbice, Essequibo and Demerara.
  • Some also consider the region to contain:

  • The Guayana Region, formerly the Guayana Province, in southeast Venezuela (Spanish Guyana)
  • Portuguese Guiana (Brazilian Guiana), in northeastern Brazil, originally part of the Portuguese Empire, now corresponding to the Brazilian State of Amapá.
  • History

    Before the arrival of European explorers, the Guianas were populated by scattered bands of Arawak Indians. The native tribes of the Northern Amazon are most closely related to the natives of the Caribbean; most evidence suggests that the Arawaks immigrated from the Orinoco and Essequibo River Basin in Venezuela and Guiana into the northern islands, and were then supplanted by more warlike tribes of Carib Indians, who departed from these same river valleys a few centuries later.

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