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The Guianas, also spelled Guyanas or Guayanas, is a geographical region in north-eastern South America. Strictly, the term refers to the three Guianas: Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, formerly British, Dutch, and French Guiana. Broadly, it refers to the South American coast from the mouth of the Orinoco to the mouth of the Amazon.
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.
With a land area of 214,969 km 2 (83,000 sq mi), [13] Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state by area in mainland South America after Uruguay and Suriname, and is the second-least populous sovereign state in South America after Suriname; it is also one of the least densely populated countries on Earth.
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Guyana lies south of the path of Caribbean hurricanes and none is known to have hit the country. [ 1 ] Temperatures in Georgetown are quite constant, with an average high of 32 °C (89.6 °F) and an average low of 24 °C (75.2 °F) in the hottest month (July), and an average range of 29 to 23 °C (84.2 to 73.4 °F) in February, the coolest ...
The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [1] or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, as well as the territory of French Guiana. [2] [3]
The Guiana Shield occupies the southern region of the Orinoco River and the northern region of the Amazon River, between the plains of Colombia and Venezuela and the Atlantic Ocean. It covers the whole south of Venezuela and the south of the Orinoco. It has the oldest rocks in the country. There are archaic rocks with more than 3,000 million years.
Cerros de Mavecure, Guainía department, Colombia Devil's Canyon in the Canaima National Park, Venezuela Map of the Guianas. The Guiana Shield [1] (French: Plateau des Guyanes, Bouclier guyanais; Dutch: Hoogland van Guyana, Guianaschild; Portuguese: Planalto das Guianas, Escudo das Guianas; Spanish: Escudo guayanés) is one of the three cratons of the South American Plate.