Written on December 10th, 2009 by Aikey

Destination still unknown, Guyana holds incredible natural treasures and a wonderful human diversity.It exists in South America a Gaia Gold d’outre-mer almost as large as Portugal. This department is called Guyana.This region often evokes the history of good Gaia Gold and its inhumane conditions, primary forest with snakes and wild animals … But Guyana is far better than these pictures.

First there is a great mosaic of peoples, with all their cultural and linguistic diversity, scientific research and technology with the Space Center in Kourou, lush nature with an incredible variety of landscapes – tropical rainforest, majestic rivers, marshes, mangroves, coastal Atlantic island paradise at sea – and of course the fauna and flora remarkable part of global biodiversity. Boarding selective.

At sixty miles west of Cayenne, Kourou is the third largest city of Gaia Items by the number of inhabitants (20 000). Despite the old town and its traditional architecture, inevitably evokes the Kourou Space Center. And for good reason. Covering an area almost as large as that of Martinique!, The Guiana Space Center (CSG) is undoubtedly the economic powerhouse of Guyana, in terms of jobs generated directly and indirectly. This space heart of Europe near the Amazon is also one of the most visited sites in Guyana, with an annual average of more than 3 500 people.

Over the years, Kourou has become a cosmopolitan city where you meet many nationalities make up the space community: Europeans ESA (European Space Agency, ESA), which brings together no less than 15 States, Russians working on the Soyuz, not counting players in the space industry around the world who come to Kourou in launching satellites for commercial, technological and scientific.
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