Grand-Santi is a commune of

French Guiana French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic ...

, an overseas region and department of

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located in

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. Most of the inhabitants are Ndyuka

Maroons Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas who escaped from slavery and formed their own settlements. They often mixed with indigenous peoples, eventually evolving into separate creole cultures such as the Garifuna and the Mascogos. ...

and Surinamese immigrants.

History

The commune was originally called Grand-Santi-Papaichton and included the now independent communes of Apatou and Papaichton. On 12 November 1976 Apatou was detached from Grand-Santi-Papaichton and became an independent commune. On 1 January 1993 Papaichton was also detached from Grand-Saint-Papaichton and became an independent commune. On that occasion, the name of the commune was shortened into Grand-Santi. The commune mainly lives from small-scale

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop ...

and fishing. The commune also contains other villages like .

Population

Transport

The commune can only be reached by boat or airplane. The

Grand-Santi Airport Grand-Santi Airport is an airport serving the Lawa River port of Grand-Santi, a commune of French Guiana. The airport is east of the river, which forms the border with Suriname Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Repu ...

is located northeast of Grand-Santi.

References

External links

Official site
(in French) Communes of French Guiana {{FrenchGuiana-geo-stub

History

Population

Transport

See also

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