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  2. Geography of Guyana - Wikipedia

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    The coastal plain is made up largely of alluvial mud swept out to sea by the Amazon River, carried north by ocean currents, and deposited on the Guyanese shores. [1] A rich clay of great fertility, this mud overlays the white sands and clays formed from the erosion of the interior bedrock and carried seaward by the rivers of Guyana. [ 1 ]

  3. Guyana - Wikipedia

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    A tractor in a rice field on Guyana's coastal plain. The main economic activities in Guyana are agriculture (rice and Demerara sugar), bauxite and gold mining, timber, seafood, minerals, crude oil and natural gas. Guyana's gold production in 2015 is 14 metric tons. [41]

  4. List of cities and towns in Guyana - Wikipedia

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    Map of Guyana Georgetown, Capital of Guyana Bartica. This is a list of settlements in Guyana. The following definitions have been used: City: Any settlement listed at [1] with population estimates of 75,000 or more. Town: Defined by the government of Guyana as 'municipalities'. [2] Village As defined by official government documents, census or ...

  5. Regions of Guyana - Wikipedia

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    Guyana: 214,999: 747,884: 3.5: Georgetown: Each Region is administered by a Regional Democratic Council (RDC) which is headed by a Chairman. The Regions are divided ...

  6. Agriculture in Guyana - Wikipedia

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    Maintaining preferential access to the European market was a priority in Guyana; in 1988 and 1989, production levels were too low to satisfy the EEC quota, so Guyana imported sugar at low prices and reexported it to the lucrative European market. Even so, Guyana fell 35,000 tons short of filling the quota in 1989 and 13,000 tons short in 1990. [8]

  7. Pomeroon River - Wikipedia

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    Pomeroon is within the Guyana coastal plain and the area is populated with mangrove swamp vegetation. Siriki Creek is an estuary of the Pomeroon River. [ 4 ] The mouth of the river has been deflected from pouring straight into the Atlantic ocean by a sandy spit that redirects the river to the northwest via the Cozier Canal.

  8. Flying drones and chasing data, Indigenous women in Guyana ...

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    The women’s work is considered key for Guyana, a small nation about the size of Britain that has a 285-mile-long (459 kilometers) coastline whose coastal plains lie an average of 6 feet (2 ...

  9. Outline of Guyana - Wikipedia

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    Guyana – previously known as British Guiana, is the only nation state of the Commonwealth of Nations on the mainland of South America. [1] Bordered to the east by Suriname , to the south and southwest by Brazil and to the west by Venezuela , it is the third-smallest country on the mainland of South America.