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Petits fours come in three varieties: Glacé ("glazed"), iced or decorated tiny cakes covered in fondant or icing, such as small éclairs, and tartlets; Salé ("salted"), savory bite-sized appetizers usually served at cocktail parties or buffets; Sec ("dry"), dainty biscuits, baked meringues, macarons, and puff pastries
Guyana, [b] officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, [12] is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.
This is a list of ecoregions in Guyana. Terrestrial ecoregions. Guyana is in the Neotropical realm. Ecoregions are listed by biome.
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Before the arrival of European colonials, the Guianas were populated by scattered bands of native Arawak people. The native tribes of the Northern amazon forests are most closely related to the natives of the Caribbean; most evidence suggests that the Arawaks immigrated from the Orinoco and Essequibo River Basins in Venezuela and Guiana into the northern islands, and were then supplanted by ...
Guyana's musical tradition is a mix of African, Indian, European, and Latin elements.The most popular type of music is Calypso and its offshoots and mixes, like in other parts of the Eastern Caribbean.
The Government of Guyana has administered three official censuses since the 1980 administrative reforms, in 1980, 1991 and 2002. [4] Even though this administrative region is the smallest, it has the largest population out of all Guyana's Administrative Regions. In 2012, the population of Demerara-Mahaica was recorded at 313,429 people. [5]
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.