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Travel and Tourism in French Guiana
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to French Guiana.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Climate
- Tropical; hot, humid; little seasonal temperature variation
- Ethnic Groups
- Black or mulatto 66%, white 12%, East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian 12%, other 10%
- National Holiday
- Fete de la Federation, 14 July (1790); Note - although often incorrectly referred to as Bastille Day, the celebration commemorates the holiday held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille (on 14 July 1789) and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy; other names for the holiday are Fete Nationale (National Holiday) and quatorze juillet (14th of July)
- Geographic Coordinates
- 4 00 N, 53 00 W
- Location
- Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Brazil and Suriname
- Airports
- 11
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Medical care within French Guiana is limited, and hospital facilities are available only in major urban areas. Patients' rooms in hospitals are primarily open-air facilities; instead of glass panes, hospital windows are fitted with wooden slats. The Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne Andrée Rosemon is the only full-service hospital in French Guyana. It has the only intensive care and trauma units in the country. Prescription and over the counter medicines can be purchased from pharmacies in the larger cities, however U.S.
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