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Amazon Reef, Bellevue de l'Inini, Cayenne Cathedral and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about French Guiana and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Reef system in the Atlantic Ocean
Also called the Amazonian Reef, a vast system of coral and sponge reefs in the Atlantic off northern Brazil and French Guiana, one of the biggest reef systems known. Scientists estimate it at over 1,000 kilometres long, covering over 9,300 km² (3,600 mi²).
Photo: Francini-Filho RB, Asp NE, Siegle E, Hocevar J, Lowyck K, D'Avila N, Vasconcelos AA, Baitelo R, Rezende CE, Omachi CY…, CC BY 4.0
Mountain in French Guiana
At 851 metres (2,792 ft), the highest summit in French Guiana, one of France's overseas departments. Its other names are Mont Bellevue, Montagne Bellevue and Montagne Bellevue de l'Inini.
Photo: Sémhur, CC BY-SA 4.0
Church in French Guiana, France
Seat of Cayenne's Roman Catholic diocese and listed as a French national monument, a cathedral in the town of Cayenne, French Guiana's capital.
Photo: Polo973, CC BY-SA 3.0
Bridge between Brazil and French Guiana
A cable-stayed bridge over the Oyapock River between Saint-Georges-de-l'Oyapock, in French Guiana, France, and Oiapoque, in Amapá, Brazil. Its two towers stand 83 metres (272 ft) tall, and it is 378 metres (1,240 ft) long.
Photo: Loljules, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dam in Sinnamary, French Guiana
Built across the Sinnamary River in French Guiana, a gravity dam whose chief purpose is hydroelectricity, supplying a power station of 116 MW. Sinnamary itself lies about 36 km (22 mi) to the dam's north.
Photo: Riri97, CC BY-SA 3.0
Hill in northeast French Guiana
Also called Monte Prata, a hill in French Guiana's northeast, beside Pointe Béhague on the Oyapock River estuary. The Conservatoire du littoral has protected it since 1998, after 22 petroglyphs were found there.
Photo: Polo973, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Zoo in French Guiana
A zoo in French Guiana, between Montsinéry and Macouria.
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0
Church in French Guiana, France
Listed since 1993 as a historic monument, a Catholic church at Saül, in French Guiana, France's dependent territory in the north of South America.
Photo: Psu973, CC BY-SA 3.0
Protected area in French Guiana
A wetland nature reserve in French Guiana, France, reachable only by boat from Kaw.
Photo: Esperanto2000, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Protected area in French Guiana
A nature reserve in French Guiana, France, in Matoury commune about eight kilometres south of Cayenne. It takes its name from the mountain of the same name, 234 metres (768 ft) high, and was first protected in 1942, then enlarged in 2006.
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0
Also known by its French names Guyane or Guyane française, an overseas department and region of France on the north coast of South America, in the Guianas and the West Indies. Brazil lies to its east and south and Suriname to its west. It covers 84,000 km² (32,000 sq mi) in total, 83,534 km² (32,253 sq mi) of it land, and had 298,554 people in January 2026.
Officially Guyane.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Amazon Reef, Bellevue de l'Inini, Cayenne Cathedral and Franco-Brazilian Binational Bridge and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in French Guiana that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
French. The currency is EUR.
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