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Cayenne / French Guiana

France's persistent equatorial colony, anchored at Cayenne, between the Maroni and the Oyapock rivers.

Survives as French Guiana, an overseas department of France since 1946 — the European Union's only continental South American territory, enduring to 2026.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 7 border frames for Cayenne / French Guiana — the shape you scrub through changes in 1604 · 1683 · 1765 · 1848 · 1905 · 1934 · 1946.

Further reading

• The Cambridge History of Latin America Leslie Bethell · 1984

  Treats France's equatorial colony of Cayenne within the wider colonial history of the region (broad context).

• A New History of Modern Latin America Emeritus Department of History Lawrence A Clayton · 2017

  A standard single-volume University of California Press survey of modern Latin America, giving the same broad regional context for the citing states and colonies.

Sources

• French Guiana — Wikipedia