Maripasoula
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A view of Maripasoula post office
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 Location of the commune (in red) within French Guiana |
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| Coordinates: 3°38′40″N 54°02′02″W / 3.6444°N 54.0338°WCoordinates: 3°38′40″N 54°02′02″W / 3.6444°N 54.0338°W | |
| Country | France |
| Overseas region and department | French Guiana |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni |
| Intercommunality | Ouest Guyanais |
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| • Mayor (2014–2020) | Serge Anelli |
| Area1 | 18,360 km2 (7,090 sq mi) |
| Population (2012)2 | 9,970 |
| • Density | 0.54/km2 (1.4/sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 97353 / 97370 |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Maripasoula is a commune of French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France located in South America. With a land area of 18,360 km2 (7,090 sq mi), Maripasoula is the largest commune of France, and is recognized as the fourteenth largest city in the world by surface area.
Geographic Information of Maripasoula:
The surrounding of the town are
Maripasoula City is the capital of the county.
Mayor of Maripasoula is called sir Robert Balla. For all your administrative tasks, you can go to City Hall Avenue Leonard Domerger.
The municipality is part of the Ouest Guyanais community of communes.
Its inhabitants are known in French as Maripasouliens and Maripasouliennes.
The town has 4,538 inhabitants from the last population census from 2004. With a density of 0.2 inhabitants per km², Maripasoula was a sharp increase of 24.3% of its population by 1999.
Old name of the town was Upper Maroni (1953).
Maripasoula territory belongs to the Guiana Amazonian Park (French: Parc amazonien de Guyane).
Petroglyphs of the Maroni river (archaeological site, ornate rock): engraved rocks, including their field of plate. Roche main site identified in 1948.
Shelter and painted shelters with archaeological remains of the Inselberg Susky (Archaeological site, rock shelter): the face is the Inselberg Susky including different projections with Shelters A (archaeological layer), B (buffers and potsherds) and F (rock paintings).
The wall of the shelter of the F Inselberg Suski includes 136 paintings dating probably AD e (...) Features: polisher
Cyrille Regis (9 February 1958), a former West Bromwich Albion, Coventry City, and England national football team player, was born in Maripasoula.
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